byrnema comments on ESR's New Take on Qualia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: byrnema 22 August 2009 12:32:16PM *  4 points [-]

It sounds like many of us agree: the experience of qualia is a real physical phenomenon. One that occurs in our brain somehow and is incommunicable because we don't mutually observe what happens in each other's brains. (Or even our own except in a limited way.)

So what's the other point of view? Why do dualists want to insist that there is a non-physical aspect to qualia?