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Chalmers I 235
Qualia/Francis Crick/Koch/Chalmers: (Crick and Koch FN 11/Chapter 6)(1) "Natural History of Qualia" ("the natural history of qualia").
Thesis: Neuroscience can explain similarities and differences between experiences. The geometry of experience spaces such as taste space or color space.
Cf. >Conceptual space/Gärdenfors, >Experience.
Detailed structures of the facial field, etc.
I 236
Thesis: these characteristics are objectively communicable, which implies that they must be found in physical features of the system and thus also have to be characteristics of the awareness (psychological attention). (FN 12/Chapter 6)(1).
>Awareness/Chalmers.


1. Crick, F. H. C. & C. Koch (1990).Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness. Seminars in the Neurosciences 2: 263-75.

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