... qualia3.1
Qualias have been introduced by some philosophers to describe the perceptive quality of sensations that cannot be communicated to people lacking the appropriate senses, examples of qualias are the redness of red objects or the softness of things that can be touched. The problem of qualia appears when for example one attempts to describe red to a blind person: the person can never completely understand this property of objects. A lot of discussion has centered on the actual existence of qualias, see for example [26,13]
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Antony Robert
2000-02-11