Lexicon of Arguments

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I 284
Qualia/Searle: qualia is what you cannot have without feeling anything.
No qualia are: beliefs and other intentional states. You can have these without a certain feeling connected to them.
I 34
The supposed problem is now: how can functionalism explain qualia? It cannot do it because it is tailored to a completely different subject area: it is about attributions from the point of view of the third person. >Functionalism.
I 68
Qualia/reduction/reductionism/Searle: You cannot trace back intentional content (or pain, or qualia) to something else, because if you could, these things would be something else, but they are nothing else. >Reductionism.
FodorVs: "in order for an intentional reference to be real, it must in reality be something else".
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Chalmers I 258
Disappearing Qualia/fading qualia/Searle: (Searle (1992)(1)): e.g. suppose that in your own brain, more and more silicon chips are being installed and you notice how your qualia is dwindling and you want to write "I'm becoming blind!" But you hear yourself say "I see a red object in front of me".
Chalmers: the system might believe that something is wrong about itself. But only if the physical changes cause a magical interaction.
I 259
Chalmers: it is much more likely that the qualia will not disappear when replacing neurons with silicone chips.

1. J. R. Searle: The rediscovery of the mind, Cambridge 1992.

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