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- noun Plural form of
quale .
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The language used for the qualia is applied to the theoretical description.
September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The word qualia accounts for the subjective sensation experienced by a person when they see a color or eat an ice cream.
unknown title 2009
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The word qualia accounts for the subjective sensation experienced by a person when they see a color or eat an ice cream.
unknown title 2009
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Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious cognitive functions, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.
Deepak Chopra: End-of-Life Brain Activity - A Sign of the Soul? 2010
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Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious cognitive functions, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.
Deepak Chopra: End-of-Life Brain Activity - A Sign of the Soul? 2010
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Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious, 'auto-pilot' perception and behaviors, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.
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Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious cognitive functions, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.
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The knowledge argument points out that there are things about mental states - subjective experience called 'qualia' - that are knowledge that is not material.
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The knowledge argument points out that there are things about mental states - subjective experience called 'qualia' - that are knowledge that is not material.
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The main argument against physicalism is usually thought to concern the notion of qualia, the felt qualities of experience.
Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009
chained_bear commented on the word qualia
You know, quaglia is pronounced the same way, and means quail (the bird) in Italian.
October 23, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word qualia
So if I deny the existence of quail, is that to quine quaglia?
October 23, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word qualia
...Maybe...
October 23, 2007
mollusque commented on the word qualia
Esteemed researchers dared to talk about completing a mechanical model of memory, finding the structures behind qualia, even producing a full functional description of consciousness.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 189
November 7, 2008
Donald commented on the word qualia
Coined by Gerald Edelman to describe the experience of "raw sensation".
June 23, 2009
slumry commented on the word qualia
more, perhaps, than you want to know about qualia at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/
June 25, 2015