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Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2012 03:08:10AM 4 points [-]

I just read 'Quining Qualia'. I do not see it as a solution to the hard problem of consciousness, at all. However, I did find it brilliant - it shifted my intuition from thinking that conscious experience is somehow magical and inexplicable to thinking that it is plausible that conscious experience could, one day, be explained physically. But to stop here would be to give a fake explanation...the problem has not yet been solved.

A triumphant thundering refutation of [qualia], an absolutely unarguable proof that [qualia] cannot exist, feels very satisfying—a grand cheer for the home team. And so you may not notice that—as a point of cognitive science—you do not have a full and satisfactory descriptive explanation of how each intuitive sensation arises, point by point.

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky, Dissolving the Question

Also, does anyone disagree with anything that Dennett says in the paper, and, if so, what, and why?

Comment author: Peterdjones 11 December 2012 12:42:21PM 2 points [-]

I think I have qualia. I probably don't have qualia as defined by Dennett, as simultaneously ineffable, intrinsic, etc, but there are nonetheless ways things seem to me.