Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.
I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk
Read Wittgenstein Private experience vs Public Language. Pain isn’t a thing in the universe like an atom, its a label we came up with to describe a biological AND behavioural phenomenon that we all experience subjectively. Unless you’re Plato, I guess.
Look up the definition of I. Biological soup and electricity can have first person experience.
Eyeballs. Ears. Electricity. You say “cloud of particles” as if its a reified thing, but from your perspective it ought not be. The organization of stimuli is how a cloud of particles has experience.
vegan. jainist. “efilist”. plenty of types of people out there don’t value themselves over others. We evolved affect for each other because it was biologically useful.
Wow you’re discovering why the agent exists. Crazy. We’re a deterministic set of actions that has to weigh several external and internal factors, which cannot happen instantaneously, so we are presented with the illusion of choice. Using brain scan technology scientists are able to detect what you choose before you detect what you choose, because its all shit done in the brain. This is all happening behind the scenes but choice is a real thing that evaluates over time. Time being the key factor in why it seems so odd.
Experience is the public word for our subjective processes. The designations are not arbitrary, but biological. What we deem good is socially useful and feeds back into our internal reward system because it benefits our survival.
Actually not really. Meat and electricity play THE most significant role. The only role. Matter. Again, semantic confusion, not an actual argument.