INFO & SOUNDWALK PROPOSAL
The "what it is like" character of mental states.
Qualia: "an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us"1. They can be defined as qualities or sensations, like redness or pain, as considered independently of their effects on behavior and from whatever physical circumstances give rise to them. In more philosophical terms, qualia are properties of sensory experiences. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia#Narrower_definitions).
I run my fingers over sandpaper, smell a skunk, feel a sharp pain in my finger, seem to see bright purple, become extremely angry. In each of these cases, I am the subject of a mental state with a very distinctive subjective character. There is something it is like for me to undergo each state, some phenomenology that it has. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/)
Qualia: "an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us"1. They can be defined as qualities or sensations, like redness or pain, as considered independently of their effects on behavior and from whatever physical circumstances give rise to them. In more philosophical terms, qualia are properties of sensory experiences. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia#Narrower_definitions).
I run my fingers over sandpaper, smell a skunk, feel a sharp pain in my finger, seem to see bright purple, become extremely angry. In each of these cases, I am the subject of a mental state with a very distinctive subjective character. There is something it is like for me to undergo each state, some phenomenology that it has. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/)
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