Ed Porter wrote:
Richard,
You have provided no basis for your argument that I have misunderstood
your paper and the literature upon which it is based.
[snip]
My position is that we can actually describe a fairly large number of
characteristics of our subjective experience consciousness that most
other intelligent people agree with. Although we cannot know that
others experience the color red exactly the same way we do, we can
determine that there are multiple shared describable characteristics
that most people claim to have with regard to their subjective
experiences of the color red.
This is what I meant when I said that you had completely misunderstood
both my paper and the background literature: the statement in the above
paragraph could only be written by a person who does not understand the
distinction between the "Hard Problem" of consciousness (this being
David Chalmers' term for it) and the "Easy" problems.
The precise definition of "qualia", which everyone agrees on, and which
you are flatly contradicting here, is that these things do not involve
anything that can be compared across individuals.
Since this an utterly fundamental concept, if you do not get this then
it is almost impossible to discuss the topic.
Matt just tried to explain it to you. You did not get it even then.
Richard Loosemore
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