For me personalities of other people are an important type of qualia. I don’t consider knowing someone’s personality to be a simple knowledge like “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”. So, valuing other people makes me interested in qualia more.
I’m interested in knowing properties of qualia (such as ways to enumerate qualia), not necessarily using them for “cheating” or anything. I.e. I’m interested in the knowledge itself.
Personalities aren’t really qualia as I’m defining them. They’re an aggregation of a lot of information about people’s behavior/preferences. Qualia is things people feel/experience.
Would you consider the meaning of a word (at least in a specific context) to be qualia? For me personalities are more or less holistic experiences, not (only) “models” of people or lists of arbitrary facts about a person. I mean, some sort of qualia should be associated with those “models”/facts anyway? People who experience synesthesia may experience specific qualia related to people.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I think it would be cool if awareness about other conscious beings was important for conscious experience.
I’m interested in qualia for different reasons:
For me personalities of other people are an important type of qualia. I don’t consider knowing someone’s personality to be a simple knowledge like “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”. So, valuing other people makes me interested in qualia more.
I’m interested in knowing properties of qualia (such as ways to enumerate qualia), not necessarily using them for “cheating” or anything. I.e. I’m interested in the knowledge itself.
Personalities aren’t really qualia as I’m defining them. They’re an aggregation of a lot of information about people’s behavior/preferences. Qualia is things people feel/experience.
Would you consider the meaning of a word (at least in a specific context) to be qualia? For me personalities are more or less holistic experiences, not (only) “models” of people or lists of arbitrary facts about a person. I mean, some sort of qualia should be associated with those “models”/facts anyway? People who experience synesthesia may experience specific qualia related to people.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I think it would be cool if awareness about other conscious beings was important for conscious experience.