Qualia

The Hornswoggle Problem In this paper I will examine “The Hornswoggle Problem” in which Patricia Chruchland makes some strong claims on the argument about consciousness. I agree with Chruchland’s argument on about that Chalmers argument on consciousness isn’t a good argument. my conclusion is that Chalmers makes some valid points which helps make his argument an ok one but not strong enough for it to be a good one. I will show parts of what Chalmers is saying is a valid to his argument and what…

Chalmer states that the hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining the relationship between physical phenomena, such as brain processes, and experience. (Robert J. Howell and Torin Alter (2009), Scholarpedia, 4(6):4948) Thomas Nagel sees the problem as turning on the “subjectivity” of conscious mental states (1974, 1986). He argues that the facts about conscious states are inherently subjective—they can only be fully grasped from limited types of viewpoints.…

Zombie and Intellectuals All humans are either zombies or intellectuals. No in-betweens. The zombies are the malleable people that are shaped by their environment. Intellectuals are the self-willed people that are very uneasily swayed. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporates both types of individuals to pass on a message everyone can learn from. The characters in Fahrenheit 451 can be divided into two categories–zombies and intellectuals –that teach readers that intellectuals need to help…

In philosophy, qualia is an individual's subjective internal emotional experience. Qualia refers to the aspects of human experience that may be perceived differently by others for a variety of reasons. Internal states may be described, although they differ from person to person. Qualia may include simple experiences such as the perception of color, texture of temperature. However, it may also be much more complex such as an individual's thoughts and experience relating to mental disorders,…

never seen color before. Famously created by Frank Jackson in “Epiphenomenal Qualia,” the thought experiment intends to deny that certain mental phenomena are physical. Specifically, when he created the experiment, Jackson wanted to…

A Brief Synopses/ Introduction In the Ted Talks video Optical Illusion, Beau Lotto started his presentation with a game of two panels (a white panel and a black panel) containing colored dots. By engaging the audience to identify the colors that where exactly the same on both panels, he explained that the purpose of the game was for the audience to see the world as it is. Next, Beau Lotto describes why color is important and how we use color to make sense of sensory information. First, he uses…

The research that was being presented in this article is: Neighborhood Stigma and The Perception of Disorder. The article researches the sociology and criminology as well as few ideas that leads to a neighborhood falling under the Broken Windows Theory. The theory first made surface in 1982 by James Wilson and George Kelling. According to Wilson and Kelling, “Broken Windows Theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional…

Synesthesia is defined as the perception of a certain stimulus, which is called the inducer, that automatically results in an internally generated sensation, which is called the concurrent (van Leeuwen, 2013). It is an uncommon condition but there are many different types of synesthesia. The most common type is synesthesia is grapheme-colour (GC) synesthesia. GC synesthesia is when letters induce the perception of colours (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). Just as there are different types of…

Warm Bodies: A Metaphor of Materialism’s Effect On People Warm Bodies by Issac Marion describes a world where humans coexist with zombies. In the novel, people are turning into zombies for unknown reasons. These zombies do not feel anything but hunger and mostly do not aware of the world around them. Issac Marion uses the zombie genre to represent the materialistic world and suggests that materialism is self-destructive because materialists are more likely to be selfish, insensitive and unhappy.…

Evolution There have been many arguments on the topic evolution. In the Qualia Soup video: Evolution, the topic will be broken down and the truth will finally be revealed. The scientific theory of evolution explains how living organism develop and diversity over generations. It not explains the origins and development of the universe as in cosmogenesis. It also does not explain how life first began such as abiogenesis. What it does explain is how new varieties of life form emerge from earlier…