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Refuting Qualia Part I: The Knowledge Argument

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Wikipedia notes a definition of qualia: …qualia are properties of sensory experiences by virtue of which there is something it is like to have them.
Much of the debate over the existence of qualia lies in the definition of the term, so I’ll give my conception and subsequently refute it. Qualia are the things like “seeing [...]

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