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Concerning Qualia, p-zombies & sub-qualia


Qualia are experiential properties of sensations, feelings, perceptions. Qualia is currently defined as undivided instances of subjective, conscious experience. What if the Qualia is further divisioned? In other words, they are the building blocks or atoms of conscious substanacem adding them together makes up individual subjective cognitive and emotional memory blocks -- particularly those that we can recall later on and they are almost permanently etched into our non-volatile memory.

Quantifiable Qualia can be further deconstructed into hitherto unheralded constructs -- provided that Qualia exists. These novel sub-divisions of Qualia will facilitate our collective inference of the human consciousness as a multiples of quale. In similar vein, psyche of Homo Sapiens can also be deconstructed or are undergone reductionism into elements heretofore unexplored to Homo Sapiens ('as of Anno Domini 2017')

So the question is: Can Qualia be further divided into various other sub-divisions? e.g. Qualia of Auditory sensations? Musical patterns, and have their reality as patterns of inner sound; Visual Qualia; Qualia of Smell; Qualia of taste; Qualia of touch et seq ???

Can Qualia of hearing be divided into auditory frequence? The commonly stated range of human hearing is 20 Hz to 20 kHz. ... Humans are most sensitive to (i.e. able to discern at lowest intensity) frequencies between 2,000 and 5,000 Hz.

Visual Qualia -- Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths from about 390 to 700 nm. In terms of frequency, this corresponds to a band in the vicinity of 430–770 THz.; et cetera

How about Qualia of cognition? Qualia of emotional capacitance? Is division of consciousness into subjective Qualia to be classified under reductionist philosophy or deconstructionism -- responsible or irresponsivle unknown hitherto ??

Does the interaction problem disprove Qualia? Or does it show that there is no causal relation between qualia and physical materialities? Do we still have a parallelism? Or if there is no interaction, then every claim of qualia is rendered invalid? The interaction problem means that something cannot be selectively uncertain. It is either uncertain to everybody, or uncertain to nobody!

Take a philosophical zombie and isolate the causal chains of actions that lead to it claiming to have qualia then test other people for that causal chain. It could be determined which people are philosophical zombies ('p-zombies'). Are dreams sub-qualia ('sub-conscious are we when dreaming')? Do we lose all qualia data and/or information if we have brain trauma per se?

Are you a p-zombie?

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I'm not sure.



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