Qualia

this paper I will define, explain, and give an example of functionalism. Then, I will examine the three premises and conclusion that constitute the Absent Qualia argument against Functionalism. Additionally, I will evaluate premise 1 of the Absent Qualia argument and explain my agreement. Lastly, I will evaluate premise 2 of the Absent Qualia argument and explain my disagreement with Phenomenal Consciousness. Functionalism is the idea that a particular mental state is identified by its…

Jordan Mashal Professor Landers PHI 344 24 Septemeber 2017 Dualism Prompt 1: The central claim of substance dualism relies on the non identity of the mind and the body. Gotfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a German philosopher, articulated a law that defines the notion of identity as: for any x and y, if x is identical to y, then x and y have all the same properties. Further, any two things that have all and only the same properties as one another are identical to each other. Finally, if there is…

ice-cream, to fall in love with someone, to see red, and to smell rose. However, Qualia actually poses a problem on Physicalism. Actually, Qualia is the phenomenally consciousness that people feel about their experience. Every person has his/her own way to feel about things. It largely depends on everyone’s life experience, education background, even age, occupation and gender. Moreover, as a phenomenally consciousness, Qualia must contain subjective point of view. By contrast, Physical facts…

characteristics of sensory experiences (qualia). Intentionality in this case is understood as representation, of which can exhibit functional or physical properties. Sensory experiences must thus always be about something for SR, regardless of the subject’s awareness of it. As opposed to the traditional understanding of qualia, SR rejects the idea that mental states possess an intrinsically qualitative aspect. Instead, strong representationalists identify qualia “as phenomenal character […] with…

the subjective account of experiences, or qualia, that one goes through and how they differ from person to person (or even from species to species). Furthermore, physicalism fails to account for qualia by generalizing the experience as linked to a mental state. Nagel goes on to say that physicalist theory cannot be used as an effective explanation for consciousness and the origin of mental states if the underlying theory did not take into account for qualia. This is because the theory attempts…

of the person, such as eating if hungry. However, many still question if the mind-brain issue has been solved when the idea of qualia is brought up. Qualia are the feelings of conscious thoughts that are difficult to describe or characterize. In the functionalist view humans are closely related to computers with information processing that most important aspect, but qualia is hard to categorize and does not fall into this…

Descartes correspond to qualia like emotions, sound, and color. However, Locke used the inverted spectrum to highlight errors in the secondary qualities. He accepted that people do not directly observe the external world. However, he did not view qualia as proof that there exists a non-physical substance in mind, or the inexistence of external world. Locke instead advocated for casual realism with the view that people can derive the existence of external objects from the invoked qualia. Locke…

He claimed that external objects exist outside of time and space, and that the mind is needed to organize qualia into separate spatial and temporal locations. This means that the concepts of space and time are rationalist in nature. They are not learned from experience. The mind is also needed to join associated qualia into the objects we recognize. In order to do this, Kant agreed with Descartes when he stated that the mind must necessarily be a unified whole…

We both may be experiencing a multitude of various brain states, but can we as individuals be identical within? Qualia states that there is no way to possibly know how others’ brains are reacting (I cannot be inside your body to feel precisely what you feel and experience just as you cannot be inside mine) and therefore there are holes in the functionalism theory…

Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism The knowledge argument suggests that physicalism - the claim that the world is entirely physical – is a falsified theory that should not be accepted on the basis that it disregards the metaphysical. “The knowledge argument aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It rests on the idea that someone who has complete physical knowledge about another conscious being might yet lack knowledge about how it feels to have the…