Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.

I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    that subjective experience is an objective “thing” that both of us are sharing?

    Not exactly. We’re not sharing anything; we both have our own subjective experiences that are inaccessible to each other. The point is that the subjective experiences happen at all. Compare this to just putting a rock or a printer on a stove.

    and we can know that?

    We can’t know the other person has a subjective experiences for certain. But if you think you can’t know about yourself that’s the point of my comment: try putting your hand on a hot stove and convincing yourself you don’t know if you’re in pain or not.

    but I don’t think “qualia” is a falsifiable or useful way to describe what is occurring

    Again, try putting your hand on a stove and convincing yourself that this is no different than putting a rock on the stove.