Ineffability of Qualia: A Straightforward Naturalistic Explanation

Jakab, Zoltán

doi:10.1006/ccog.2000.0430

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“…This property means that the content of subjective experience cannot be taught to persons who have never had the same experience, at least to some degree. Thus, for example, it is known to be impossible to describe to a congenitally color-blind person what it is like to see colors (e.g., Jakab 2000).…”

Section: R23 Assessing Conscious Contentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The self-organizing consciousness

2002

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We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness (SOC).

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The self-organizing consciousness

2002

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“…Therefore, their consciousness during the completion of a survey instrument exists independently of external observers. The second property is composition, meaning that decision-makers’ consciousness is structured as a moment of experience [ 29 , 30 ]. The third property is information, which can be described as one moment of consciousness that is highly informative [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ].…”

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QuantumIS: A Qualia Consciousness Awareness and Information Theory Quale Approach to Reducing Strategic Decision-Making Entropy

Rodger

2019

Entropy

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This paper investigates the underlying driving force in strategic decision-making. From a conceptual standpoint, few studies empirically studied the decision-maker’s intrinsic state composed of entropy and uncertainty. This study examines a mutual information theory approach integrated into a state of qualia complexity that minimizes exclusion and maximizes the interactions of the information system and its dynamic environment via logical metonymy, illusion, and epigenetics.; The article questions whether decision-makers at all levels of the organization are responding from the consciousness of an objective quale from a more subjective qualia awareness in the narrow-sense perspective of individual instances of their conscious experience. To quantify this research question, we explore several hypotheses revolving around strategic information system decisions. In this research, we posit that the eigenvalues of factor analysis along with the reduction in the uncertainty coefficients of the qualia entropy will be balanced by the quale enthalpy of our information theory structural equation model of trust, flexibility, expertise, top management support, and competitive advantage performance. We operationalize the integration of the aforementioned top management support, information systems competencies, and competitive advantage performance concepts into the qualia consciousness awareness and information theory quale framework.

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“…2 I have recently reviewed the transparency of experience (Musacchio 2002). See also Block and Stalnaker (1999); Dennett (1991), Jakab (2000), Metzinger (1995), Papineau (1995Papineau ( , 2002, Tye (2000), Martin (2002) and Chalmers (1996). 3 I found inspiration in the work of Papineau (2002).…”

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Why do Qualia and the Mind Seem Nonphysical?

Musacchio

2005

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In this article, I discuss several of the factors that jeopardize our understanding of the nature of qualitative experiences and the mind. I incorporate the view from neuroscience to clarify the naïve view from the first person perspective. I suggest that the most misleading factor in the understanding the nature of the mind and conscious processes is the transparency of experiences and the imperceptibility of the neurobiological processes that realize them. Transparency reflects the biological advantages provided to organisms by avoiding the proliferation of superfluous sensing and the regress implied in sensing the sensors and analyzers ad infinitum. The downside of simplicity and the price for biological efficiency is that through introspection, we cannot perceive the inner workings of the brain. Thus, the view from the first person perspective creates the pervasive illusion that the mind is nonphysical. Sensing the environment requires encoding information into neural surrogates, which I conceive as contingent processes that when incorporated into conscious processes become qualitative experiences. They are cognitive shortcuts with a variable degree of isomorphism, which partially falsify reality. Thus, the what-it-is-like is not the what-it-is. The first person perspective seemings should be corrected by the objective approach provided by neuroscience. To compensate for the contingency of experiences, organisms learn to rely on the aboutness of associated phenomenal concepts. Experiences have high biological value, because even in the absence of language, they allow organisms to make intelligent choices. Qualia are also necessary to ground words and language, which are essential to develop higher forms of cognition.

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Ineffability of Qualia: A Straightforward Naturalistic Explanation

Cited by 22 publications

References 17 publications

The self-organizing consciousness

The self-organizing consciousness

QuantumIS: A Qualia Consciousness Awareness and Information Theory Quale Approach to Reducing Strategic Decision-Making Entropy

Why do Qualia and the Mind Seem Nonphysical?

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