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

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 21 September 2012 07:40:01PM *  0 points [-]

The purpose is to establish that "qualia" are not ontologically basic building blocks of the universe sprung into existence alongside up-quarks and charmings

Since qualia describe an event (in a sense), I think that if they're ever found to have measurable existence, they'll not be so much what a gluon is to "top-quark", but more something like what division is to the real numbers...

Comment author: DaFranker 21 September 2012 11:17:32PM 0 points [-]

That is exactly - if I interpret your comment charitably - what my hypothesis concludes and what I want to test with the proposed experiment in the grand-grand-parent.