There is not a single utility qualia. There is a huge number of different kinds of qualia. Each kind of qualia is associated with a different amount of utility. For example, the qualia of red is zero utility. The qualia of fun is positive, as is the qualia of love. Even that’s an oversimplification, as those each can refer to different kinds of qualia.
The mere idea of having separate qualia for “wanting” and “liking” means nothing.
The question is: are we estimating the utility of each kind of qualia correctly?
The more formal methods suggest that “wanting” is, if anything, more important than “liking”, whereas intuitive methods say the reverse.
I suggest figuring out what causes us to intuitively give one answer.
Does the fact that we believe “wanting” is unimportant mean it is? Perhaps we’re just lying about it to ourselves. It makes us happy, but we don’t know it does. I think this is the same as saying we only feel it on a subconscious level. If so, the question is equivalent to asking if the subconscious mind feels qualia.
There is more than one emotion that can be used for reward. Nobody has argued against that. There can’t be more than one unless there are separate neurological mechanisms.
The important thing is that not every emotion useable for reward is good. There is no way they could have possibly figured that out from that study. That part was either from introspection or someone misinterpreting the study.
There is not a single utility qualia. There is a huge number of different kinds of qualia. Each kind of qualia is associated with a different amount of utility. For example, the qualia of red is zero utility. The qualia of fun is positive, as is the qualia of love. Even that’s an oversimplification, as those each can refer to different kinds of qualia.
The mere idea of having separate qualia for “wanting” and “liking” means nothing.
The question is: are we estimating the utility of each kind of qualia correctly?
The more formal methods suggest that “wanting” is, if anything, more important than “liking”, whereas intuitive methods say the reverse.
I suggest figuring out what causes us to intuitively give one answer.
Does the fact that we believe “wanting” is unimportant mean it is? Perhaps we’re just lying about it to ourselves. It makes us happy, but we don’t know it does. I think this is the same as saying we only feel it on a subconscious level. If so, the question is equivalent to asking if the subconscious mind feels qualia.
Knowing that ‘wanting’ and ‘liking’ use distinct neurological mechanisms is useful. (Using the term ‘qualia’ - not so much.)
There is more than one emotion that can be used for reward. Nobody has argued against that. There can’t be more than one unless there are separate neurological mechanisms.
The important thing is that not every emotion useable for reward is good. There is no way they could have possibly figured that out from that study. That part was either from introspection or someone misinterpreting the study.