Actually, having written this, it just now occurs to me that my cached thought may be incorrect, that all my other qualia processing is “normal”.
...I routinely (but not always) fail to perceive any qualia for hunger or smells (this predates COVID) -- yet, curiously, in the case of smells I somehow know (without any experience of perception) that there is a smell that I ought to be experiencing, and its rough intensity.
In the case of hunger, I’ll literally fail to know I need to eat. I’ll get the shakes and collapse and wonder why. I’ve needed to establish a habit of scheduled eating, to avoid this occurrence.
Previously, I had grouped these defects in with my inability to know my own wants—in my theory: trauma damage that severed the connection to certain mental modules—but it now occurs to me that an alternative hypothesis exists: that there’s a possible connection to my unusual visual qualia processing.
Actually, having written this, it just now occurs to me that my cached thought may be incorrect, that all my other qualia processing is “normal”.
...I routinely (but not always) fail to perceive any qualia for hunger or smells (this predates COVID) -- yet, curiously, in the case of smells I somehow know (without any experience of perception) that there is a smell that I ought to be experiencing, and its rough intensity.
In the case of hunger, I’ll literally fail to know I need to eat. I’ll get the shakes and collapse and wonder why. I’ve needed to establish a habit of scheduled eating, to avoid this occurrence.
Previously, I had grouped these defects in with my inability to know my own wants—in my theory: trauma damage that severed the connection to certain mental modules—but it now occurs to me that an alternative hypothesis exists: that there’s a possible connection to my unusual visual qualia processing.