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

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Comment author: Pentashagon 09 July 2014 02:41:50AM 0 points [-]

Granted; we won't have definitive evidence for or against dualism until we're at the point that we can fully test the (non-) reductive nature of qualia. If people who have access to each other's private language dictionaries still report meta-feeling that the other person feels different qualia from the same mental stimulus then I'll have more evidence for dualism than I do now. True, that won't help with incomparable qualia, but it would be kind of...convenient...if the only incomparable qualia are the ones that people report feeling differently.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 July 2014 12:36:34PM 0 points [-]

We are not going to have private language dictionaries.