It is argued that qualia are the primary way in which sensory information manifests itself in mind. Qualia are not seen as properties of the physical ... manifests itself inside the system. Systems that have qualia have direct and transparent access to this response. It is argued that even though qualia are produced inside the head, they appear to ... way that we experience it is to have qualia. True conscious machines must have qualia, but the qualities of machine qualia need not be similar to the qualities of ...
Tópico(s): Embodied and Extended Cognition
2009 - World Scientific | International Journal of Machine Consciousness
... acceptable to all sides. The 'classic' conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve ... is wrong and that the diet notion of qualia has no distinctive content. There is no phenomenal residue left when qualia are stripped of their intrinsicality, ineffability, and subjectivity. Thus, if we reject classic qualia realism, we should accept that all that needs explaining are 'zero' qualia - our dispositions to judge that our experiences have classic qualia. Diet qualia should, in Dennett's phrase, be ...
Tópico(s): Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
2011 - Elsevier BV | Consciousness and Cognition
... I am accused of denying the existence of qualia. I was shocked to read this because (although ... then) I have been a staunch fan of qualia for at least thirty years. Lopes says that I must deny their existence because qualia, the what-it-is-like qualities of phenomenal ... experience. Since I defend a representational theory of qualia, my theory, it seems, is false by definition. ... the ambiguity infects a great many discussions of qualia, it is, I believe, worth taking a moment to get clear about it. Qualia are certainly to experience if by intrinsic we ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Science, and History
2000 - Wiley | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Andrea Schiavio, Dylan van der Schyff,
... notion quale. In its original usage, the term qualia (the plural form quale) refers to the intrinsic ... latter, it is common to refer to musical qualia (Dowling, 2010; Goguen, 2004). In this paper, we take a critical look at three standard notions qualia (in general) and musical qualia (in particular). Although our main goal is to ... have implications for assessing the validity the notion qualia in general.We begin by considering three main philosophical perspectives on qualia. Here we critically discuss their explanatory power using ...
Tópico(s): Action Observation and Synchronization
2016 - American Psychological Association | Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain
... investigated the ability of scale degrees to evoke qualia, and the impact of harmonic context in shaping a scale degree’s qualia. In addition, the following questions were addressed: What role does music training have in shaping qualia? Are listeners consistent in their descriptions? Are experiences ... music-theoretic training were asked to rate the qualia of scale degrees following various chord progressions, each ... degrees were found to exhibit relatively consistent musical qualia; however, the local chord context was found to ...
Tópico(s): Music and Audio Processing
2018 - University of California Press | Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
... have a ‘flow-like’ quality. Call this ‘temporal qualia’. Temporal qualia are commonly thought to be central to the ... in order for us to have the temporal qualia we do; (2) passage antirealists typically concede that time appears to pass, as though our temporal qualia falsely represent time as passing. I reject both ... no useful explanatory role with respect to temporal qualia, but rather obfuscates what the philosophical problem of temporal qualia is. I offer a ‘reductionist’ account of temporal qualia that makes no reference to the concept of ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy and History of Science
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Roi Cohen Kadosh, Vincent Walsh,
... such as synaesthesia, and for the generation of qualia. A new study of congenitally blind participants has ... such as synaesthesia, and for the generation of qualia. The human brain retains a high level of ... stimulation of the visual cortex induces somatotopically organized qualia in blind subjects.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. ... extent and topography. Moreover, the characteristics of these qualia were somatotopically organised as a function of the ... stimulation of the visual cortex induces somatotopically organized qualia in blind subjects.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. ...
Tópico(s): Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
2006 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
... etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia . Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The ... it looks like to have a quale . The qualia problem is solved by introducing a bundle theory of phenomenal objects. Phenomenal objects are bundles of qualia. Thus there is no need for independent qualia bearers. The having problem is solved by introducing ... no further relations are needed to explain how qualia are had. This study strives for phenomenological adequacy. ...
Tópico(s): Islamic Thought and Society Studies
1998 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Advances in consciousness research
... the experience of scale-degree perception is as “qualia,” introspectively available aspects of experience that give what ... This article examines the nature of scale-degree qualia on the basis of their phenomenology and, drawing ... mind, presents an inflationary account of scale-degree qualia, separating them from other types of musical qualia and other concepts related to scale degrees. I argue that the attribution of scale-degree qualia is a kind of interpretive judgment that can be unconscious or, if the qualia are tied to musical concepts, conscious, thereby giving ...
Tópico(s): Musicology and Musical Analysis
2017 - Oxford University Press | Music Theory Spectrum
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó,
... metonymic contexts. Being part of the mental lexicon, qualia are supposed to model linguistic knowledge – in opposition ... complex lexical entries containing information about event knowledge (qualia roles: reading the book/writing the book). Qualia structure provides concrete constraints on interpretation, which are ... comprehension does. Keywords: Logical metonymy; generalized event knowledge; qualia structure; self-paced reading. Logical metonymy: lexicon vs. ... each noun is associated with a complex structure (qualia structure) in the mental lexicon. It notably contains ...
Tópico(s): linguistics and terminology studies
2011 - Wiley | Cognitive Science
Raúl Arrabales, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchis,
The concept of qualia poses a central problem in the framework of consciousness studies. Despite it being a controversial issue even in the study of human consciousness, we argue that qualia can be complementarily studied using artificial cognitive architectures. ... this work we address the problem of defining qualia in the domain of artificial systems, providing a model of “artificial qualia”. Furthermore, we partially apply the proposed model to the generation of visual qualia using the cognitive architecture CERA-CRANIUM, which is ...
Tópico(s): Visual perception and processing mechanisms
2011 - Springer Nature | Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hayato Saigo, Steven Phillips,
What are the nature of the relationship among qualia, contents of consciousness, and behavioral reports? Traditionally, this ... inaccurate nature of reports of one's own qualia to discourage formal research programs on qualia. Other empirical researchers, however, have made substantial progress in understanding the structure of qualia from such limited reports. What is the precise ... captures some aspects of the nuanced relationships between qualia and reports. The concept of adjunction allows us ... relationship. This rises in empirical experimental situations between qualia and reports. More importantly, an idea of adjunction ...
Tópico(s): Neural dynamics and brain function
2023 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Psychology
... colors, pains, and other conscious qualities? These various qualia are the most essential aspects of consciousness. Yet ... the “spike code,” to account for how these qualia arise and how they unite to form complex ... to get from these abstract codes to the qualia we experience. But electromagnetic field (versus synaptic) approaches to how qualia arise have been offered in recent years by ... show promise in offering more viable accounts of qualia. Yet, until now, they have not been evaluated together. We review various EM field theories of qualia, highlight their strengths and weaknesses, and contrast these ...
Tópico(s): Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
2023 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Psychology
... are some influential theater critics who have panned Qualia ! most recently and vehemently, Dan Dennett. In his review, Quining Qualia,1 he laments several characters of Qualia ! as unrealistic and even kitschy. This literary criticism ... Explained ,2 where he puts the blame for Qualia ! and similar productions on any cartoonsian theater that ... the issues at stake, with brief excerpts from Qualia!' s playbill.
Tópico(s): Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
1994 - University of Arkansas Press | Philosophical Topics
... blindsight participant, GY, several definitions of the term "qualia" and then questioned him about whether he felt or he experienced qualia in his normal and blind fields. We found, ... others who have used different methods for measuring qualia, that GY does not have qualia for stationary stimuli in his blind field. This novel method for directly assessing qualia embraces the idea that experiences should be related ...
Tópico(s): Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
2007 - Elsevier BV | Consciousness and Cognition
Whether or not qualia are ways things seem, the view that qualia have the properties typically attributed to them is unjustified. Ways things ... have the features commonly attributed to them, and qualia do have those same features, this looks like ... two. But if your reasons for believing that qualia have the features are epistemically on a par ... then those reasons cannot justify your belief that qualia have the features. I argue that the reasons ...
Tópico(s): Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
2005 - Springer Science+Business Media | Philosophical Studies
Lily Chumley, Nicholas Harkness,
... issue proposes that the semiotically theorized concept of ‘qualia’ is useful for anthropologists working on problems of the senses, materiality, embodiment, aesthetics, and affect. Qualia are experiences of sensuous qualities (such as colors, ... be understood as being sensations of qualities – the qualia of softness, lightness, clarity, pain, stink, etc. – and in which those qualia are endowed with cultural value, whether positive or negative. The papers in this issue demonstrate that qualia are not just subjective mental experiences but rather ...
Tópico(s): Geographies of human-animal interactions
2013 - SAGE Publishing | Anthropological Theory
... qualitative feel--an associated quality of experience ... or qualia for short. The problem of explaining these phenomenal ... like to be someone, modern drama goes beyond qualia and approaches the foundation of human reality, the ... between mind--with its intentional content, such as qualia--and consciousness, which is devoid of content. Eastern ... suggestive power (dhvani) to shift awareness from the qualia, or content, of the mind toward a state ... shift much in evidence in contemporary drama. The qualia of experience are mediated by linguistic and historical ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
2001 - | Studies in the literary imagination
... semiotic approach to pragmatics through the concept of qualia. Qualia are pragmatic signals (indexes) that materialize phenomenally in ... activity as sensuous qualities. The pragmatic role of qualia is observed through exemplary accounts of the “feeling ... external “things,” and body-focal practices. Attention to qualia enables anthropologists to consider ethnographically what is continuous ... pragmatics and offers suggestions for future research on qualia in the areas of awareness, language, and ritual.
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2015 - Annual Reviews | Annual Review of Anthropology
Hui-Yun Yen, Christopher Lin, Rungtai Lin,
... cultural and creative Industries and cultural-products of Qualia closely related? All of these questions are worthy ... presented a framework applicable to any kind of Qualia products and culture and creative industries. The findings ... products should conform to the five factors of Qualia: Attractiveness, Beauty, Creativity, Delicacy and Engineering; successful culture ... Taiwan has the advantage that value-added from Qualia to business model of cultural and creative industry ... includes the relation between cultural-products and consumers, Qualia products and business model exchange platform, international marketing ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
... AbstractThis paper argues that mechanisms underlying consciousness and qualia are likely to arise from the information processing ... behavior could lead to the subjective experience of qualia. In particular, it explores the pattern processing capabilities ... of their own activity could give rise to qualia. The paper includes an examination of some limited ... Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, Vol. 13, No. 02PERCEPTUAL QUALIA AND LOCAL NETWORK BEHAVIOR IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEXROGER ...
Tópico(s): Memory and Neural Mechanisms
2007 - Imperial College Press | Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
Qualia—sensory experiences of abstract qualities such as heat, texture, color, sound, stink, hardness, and so on— ... approaches to materiality by arguing that attention to qualia, as sensorial and somatic experiences mediated by cultural ... are represented in and organized by discourses on qualia and demonstrate the crucial role of qualia and qualisigns in "ontological politics" (Mol 1999).
Tópico(s): Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
2017 - University of Chicago Press | Signs and Society
Pedro A. M. Mediano, Fernando Rosas, Daniel Bor, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett,
... 20Google Scholar,9.Moon K. Exclusion and underdetermined qualia.Entropy. 2019; 21: 405Crossref Scopus (6) Google Scholar]. ... of the system [75.Balduzzi D. Tononi G. Qualia: the geometry of integrated information.PLoS Comput. Biol. ... 20Google Scholar,9.Moon K. Exclusion and underdetermined qualia.Entropy. 2019; 21: 405Crossref Scopus (6) Google Scholar], ... defined and leads to the so-called 'underdetermined qualia problem' (while this situation may be unlikely in ... fundamental level) [9.Moon K. Exclusion and underdetermined qualia.Entropy. 2019; 21: 405Crossref Scopus (6) Google Scholar, ...
Tópico(s): Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
2022 - Elsevier BV | Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Steven Phillips, Hayato Saigo,
... as objects, we can define a category of qualia in the context of category theory. However, the example qualia categories we proposed were highly idealized and limited ... of similarity that arises in many instances of qualia. Enriched categories generalize the concept of a relation ... of relationships between the quale and the other qualia up to an (enriched) isomorphism.
Tópico(s): Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
2022 - Elsevier BV | Consciousness and Cognition
... information theory approach integrated into a state of qualia complexity that minimizes exclusion and maximizes the interactions ... of an objective quale from a more subjective qualia awareness in the narrow-sense perspective of individual ... the reduction in the uncertainty coefficients of the qualia entropy will be balanced by the quale enthalpy ... competencies, and competitive advantage performance concepts into the qualia consciousness awareness and information theory quale framework.
Tópico(s): Complex Systems and Decision Making
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Entropy
This article argues that qualia are a likely outcome of the processing of information in local cortical networks. It uses an information-based approach and ... structures to the brain, and the basis of qualia). It develops formal relationships between these two kinds ... top of previous messages could lead to olfactory qualia. The message identified on each pass of information ... networks in a resonant state. The argument for qualia generation is applied to other sensory modalities, showing ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
2017 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Kenneth J. Sufka, Michael P. Lynch,
... what we label the ''causal problem'' of pain qualia, the problem of how the brain generates pain qualia. In particular, the data suggest that pain qualia naturally supervene on activity in a specific brain ... several philosophical concerns regarding the nature of pain qualia. The second section overviews the current state of ... these data affect the causal problem of pain qualia.
Tópico(s): Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
2000 - Taylor & Francis | Philosophical Psychology
... the transparency of experience in arguments against the qualia theory. Representationalists take transparency to support their theory and to work against the qualia theory. In this paper I argue that representationalist ... is another theory, naïve realism. Transparency militates against qualia and the representationalist theory of experience. I describe ... for naïve realism and against representationalism and the qualia theory. I also examine the relationship between phenomenological ...
Tópico(s): Mental Health and Psychiatry
2009 - Wiley | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
... possible. These theories argue that experiential contents, or qualia, are nonphysical properties. The arguments are based on ... and properties remain the same, but in which qualia either differ or are absent altogether. This article maintains that qualia are, on the contrary, physical properties in the ... the burden of the a posteriori identification of qualia with physical properties, a reasoned choice can be ...
Tópico(s): Theology and Philosophy of Evil
2002 - Elsevier BV | Consciousness and Cognition
... the emotional feeling comprises the following two emotional qualia. (1) A nucleus feeling or primary emotional quale, ... related reflections. Different brain modules regulate these two qualia, and thus each can be experienced independently of ... which two are directly related to the two qualia. (1) An evolutionary ancient system (amygdala-system), which ...
Tópico(s): Face Recognition and Perception
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Cognition & Emotion