Caledonian2 comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 16 October 2008 05:41:00PM 0 points [-]

Qualia are neural representations of certain data.

That is NOT what that word is generally used to refer to.

So what? I don't see why so called reductionists quibble over this so much.

Probably because you're using the word incorrectly, so you don't understand what they're objecting to.