Tag Archives: qualia

David Chalmers on Hard v. Soft Emergence with Regard to Consciousness

David Chalmers discusses hard v. soft emergence and why consciousness falls into the former category:

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A God Delusion: Josh Timonen v. Richard Dawkins

One sad aspect of the lawsuit recently filed against Josh Timonen by Richard Dawkins is the way that it has inadvertently played out the atheist script generally: reduce an ontological mystery (a mystery of being) to a mere problem or function for rational … Continue reading

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Qualia Defined

Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), admirably explains what philosophers and neuroscientists mean when they talk about qualia:

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Daniel Dennett v. David Chalmers on consciousness (with Terence McKenna putting in his two cents)

Daniel Dennett deflates consciousness here: __________ David Chalmers inflates it here: __________ And Terence McKenna takes some DMT to break the tie, struggling to share in words, to the uninitiated, the qualia that accompanies ingestion of the chemical.

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Qualia and the Ontological Mystery for Beginners

The difference between a problem and the experience of a mystery:

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