English
Pronunciation
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Noun
qualophile
- literally a lover of qualia
- a word used to label cognitive scientists that endorse qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology
Quotations
2005 A high-level natural individual Deep Thoughts
:"The real killer is this. Rosenberg set out to explain qualia, but at the end of the day it seems to me your real qualophile would say: yes, that's all very interesting, Gregg - thing is, I can imagine all of that happening without my actually experiencing the real redness of red. I don't see anything in your theory which actually catches the vivid reality of subjective experience. Now of course, in my eyes all talk of qualia is so much hot air, but I don't see why that would be any less plausible than the case for qualia was in the first place." 1
1997 Joseph Levine Consciousness Located: You'll Wonder Where the Yellow Went. Psycoloquy: 8(04)
:"So what is the explanatory problem that bothers the qualophile (to use w:Daniel Dennett| Dennett's term)? Right now I'm looking at the red diskette case beside my computer. My perceptual state possesses a certain reddish qualitative character. What explains that feature of my perceptual state? " 2
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