Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 September 2012 03:41:22AM 16 points [-]

From the standpoint of somebody feeling confused about qualia, the trouble with this solution is not that it is necessarily false but that accepting it doesn't make you feel any less confused.

Comment author: MrMind 29 September 2012 05:18:00PM -2 points [-]

I think that's because qualia, if they exists, have no correlation with physical world, hence we cannot convey information about them with physical means. P-zombies would talk about qualia in the same terms we do, which is actually their point. The only way to 'solve' by physical means the qualia problem is therefore accept it's inexistance and trying to understand why we think there's a problem in the first place: because every other coherent solution must produce the physical effect of this solution.