The main point for this being that I am experiencing qualia right now and ultimately it’s the only thing I can know for certain. I know that me saying “I experience qualia and this is the only true fact I can prove form certain about the universe” isn’t verifiable from the outside, but certainly other people experience the exact same thing? Are illusionists, and people who claim qualia doesn’t exist in general P-Zombies?
Well, something is definitely going on. But I think a very reasonable position, which often overlaps with illusionism, is that lots of people are constructing the wrong mental model of what’s going on. (Or making bad demands of what a good mental model should be.)
It’s a bit similar to using a microscope to do science that leads you to make a mental model of the world in which “microscope” is not an ontologically basic or privileged thing.
Well, something is definitely going on. But I think a very reasonable position, which often overlaps with illusionism, is that lots of people are constructing the wrong mental model of what’s going on. (Or making bad demands of what a good mental model should be.)
It’s a bit similar to using a microscope to do science that leads you to make a mental model of the world in which “microscope” is not an ontologically basic or privileged thing.