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Single Idea 3151
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
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Full Idea
Descartes confined his dualism to problems of reason and language. Sensation and even imagination seemed to him physically unproblematic. Nowadays it is the reverse: thinking seems easy - but feeling?
Gist of Idea
Descartes put thought at the centre of the mind problem, but we put sensation
Source
comment on René Descartes (Meditations [1641], 2) by Georges Rey - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind 2 n16
Book Ref
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.67
A Reaction
Thinking only 'seems easy' if it can be done without consciousness, and that is beginning to look like a dubious assumption. The most interesting and promising area is the borderline between a chess-playing machine and a human chess player.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[what we should take qualia to be]:
3151
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Descartes put thought at the centre of the mind problem, but we put sensation
[Rey on Descartes]
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5788
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The use of 'qualia' seems to imply that consciousness and qualia are separate
[Searle]
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5808
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Qualia are just the properties objects are represented as having
[Dretske]
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4894
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I say Mary does not have new knowledge, but knows an old fact in a new way
[Perry on Jackson]
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4895
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Is it unfair that physicalist knowledge can be written down, but dualist knowledge can't be
[Perry on Jackson]
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4886
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Mary knows all the physical facts of seeing red, but experiencing it is new knowledge
[Jackson]
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3360
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Are pains pure qualia, or do they motivate?
[Kim]
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8209
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Part of the folk concept of qualia is what makes recognition and comparison possible
[Lewis]
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4873
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What is it like to notice an uncomfortable position when you are asleep?
[Dennett]
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6624
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Dennett denies the existence of qualia
[Dennett, by Lowe]
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2584
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Lobotomised patients can cease to care about a pain
[Block]
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3138
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Arithmetic and unconscious attitudes have no qualia
[Rey]
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3142
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Why qualia, and why this particular quale?
[Rey]
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4106
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If someone removes their glasses the content of experience remains, but the quality changes
[Crane]
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2389
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Sometimes we don't notice our pains
[Chalmers]
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2419
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Why should qualia fade during silicon replacement?
[Chalmers]
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4905
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Normal babies seem to have overlapping sense experiences
[Carter,R]
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