“ewwwww he thinks that the self is something more than just a bundle of correlated qualia”
You ever just realize that, pre Internet, maybe even pre social media, none point none none percent of us fucks would have ever even heard the word qualia before?
I mean, okay, maybe some of us would’ve taken an intro to philosophy course in college. But probably very few of us would’ve bothered to seek out knowledge that would lead us to run into this topic.
I saw this meme and I instantly knew what it meant. Anyone using the internet while having an almost completely passive level of curiosity about human existence would be exposed to the word qualia in less than a decade. Maybe less than 5 years. Based on my own experience.
That’s just wild to me. Having that word. Being a person who knows what that word means. A thing doesn’t exist as a known concept until it is described and attached to a word. And I can just apply that concept to other ideas any time it feels applicable. I can associate that idea with other concepts.
The internet as a thing that fosters interdisciplinary understanding is maybe my favorite invention that humans have created. (Besides obvious life saving stuff.)
Imagine it. Memes fostering the sharing of concepts between academic disciplines by putting those concepts into the lexicons of young people. That’s some future shit. That’s some 2037 shit.
That’s an interesting quale.
why are Americans so obsessed with quale? I’ve tried it a couple of times, and I just can’t see how it competes with spinach.
Kale is way better than spinach, wtf are you talking about. It doesn’t bruise and get gross at the slightest touch even when raw, and you can cook it in a sure and end up with softened by still discrete and reasonable-textured kale instead of a bunch of goop.
okay, sure, qualia are nice, but consider all the p-zombies sitting around starving because yuppies think they need qualia.
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just moving along like everyone else 