> > Thus it seems to me that the panpsychist view ("Everything has
> qualia but
> > some have more qualia than others") and the view that quale-intensity is
> > associated with pattern-intensity are consistent with each other, and
> > consistent with human experience.
> >
> > In this view "quale" is a different way of saying "pattern" and "quale
> > intensity" is another way of saying "pattern intensity."
>
> It sounds like it has a lot to do with attention allocation. I know, for
> example, that stimuli presented for more than 5 ms but fewer than
> 50 ms can be
> registered in the brain without being consciously experienced (thus the
> information content was received without the phenomenological
> experience called
> "qualia"). What we call qualia are the intensity of particular neural
> ensembles training on a pattern, perhaps?
>
> Martin Striz
Yes, that's consistent with my line of thinking.
Qualia are intensity of patterns ... in human brains these are mostly neural
patterns ...
and what we *call* qualia are qualia that are patterns closely associated
with the part of the brain that deals with "calling" ...
-- Ben
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