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Single Idea 3360
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
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Full Idea
Are pains only sensory events, or do they also have a motivational component (e.g. aversiveness)?
Gist of Idea
Are pains pure qualia, or do they motivate?
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p. 7)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.7
A Reaction
A nice question. Given the occasional genuine masochist, and the way some people love tastes that others hate, it has always seemed to me that aversiveness was not a necessary property of pain. I couldn't train myself to like pain, though…
Related Idea
Idea 2584
Lobotomised patients can cease to care about a pain [Block]
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[what we should take qualia to be]:
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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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