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

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Comment author: metaphysicist 18 September 2012 08:11:30AM 1 point [-]

"If nothing exists, I want to know how the nothing works and why it seems to be so highly ordered."

If qualia are explained by our innate intuitions (or beliefs)—propositional attitudes—then two questions follow about "how it works":

I make some conjectures in another essay.

Comment author: Peterdjones 18 September 2012 08:43:55PM 0 points [-]

Qualia might be beliefs instead of qualia. Matter might be qualia instead of matter.

Comment author: newname 28 September 2012 12:25:36AM -1 points [-]

:. Beliefs might be Matter instead of Beliefs, or put more simply, beliefs may matter.