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In: Qualia  — view comment
I was replying to your objection: My point is that this kind of objection also applies to consciousness of people that are awake with fully functionin...
October 24, 2016 at 13:34
What do you mean by "life"? Human life? Conscious being life? Every kind of life including vegetable and bacteria?
October 24, 2016 at 09:46
In: Qualia  — view comment
I think this can be confusing. When we drink beer we are not just experiencing "the activity" or "the taste OF BEER", we are instead experiencing the ...
October 24, 2016 at 07:00
In: Qualia  — view comment
You asked why would I "think" that a person in a coma is conscious, those ones are generally considered acceptable motivations to think so. If you wan...
October 24, 2016 at 06:45
In: Qualia  — view comment
I would believe it with a certain specific connotation of the word "conscious", check these: https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2011/...
October 23, 2016 at 20:25
In: Qualia  — view comment
For example if someone is in deep sleep (possibly drug induced) or is in a coma I would say he has a far lower level of consciousness than if he is aw...
October 23, 2016 at 19:40
In: Qualia  — view comment
the notion of "consciousness" of these papers seems to be different from the ability to have phenomenal experience and qualia, it seems to refer to hi...
October 23, 2016 at 18:33
What about neutral monism? For Example: there is only one kind of substance (consciousness) it is distributed in atomic parts (for example elementary ...
October 23, 2016 at 18:21
In: Qualia  — view comment
I think this is quite misleading, there is a confusion about what we are denoting with the word "blue". There are two possibilities: "blue" is denotin...
October 23, 2016 at 18:05