Many people believe qualia don’t exist because we wouldn’t be able learn about them empirically. But it seems spurious to assume nothing exists outside of our lightcone just because we can’t observe it.
“Qualia” is not a synonym for “non physical thingy”.
We have subjective evidence for qualia, otherwise the question would never have arisen.
Disagreements over consciousness—if non-materialist qualia existed, then we wouldn’t be able to know about them empirically
We wouldn’t be able to know about them using objective, third person empiricism. Whether third person empiricism is the only kind is part of the wider problem.
“Qualia” is not a synonym for “non physical thingy”.
We have subjective evidence for qualia, otherwise the question would never have arisen.
We wouldn’t be able to know about them using objective, third person empiricism. Whether third person empiricism is the only kind is part of the wider problem.