I don't understand this. Who is Aella and why is she promoting qualia?
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Aella replyguys looking up the word “qualia” so as not to appear unlearned:
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I think Aella has a broadly eliminativist approach to qualia, though with a different vocabulary than you and I are used to. See this thread:
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I perceived the steelman of the hard problem to be about bonsciousness, not consciousness? As in yea sure conscoiusness makes no sense, but bonsciousness is undeniable and not really integrated with modern theories.
(Im not familiar with the normal terms ppl use for this stuff)
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Interesting. It seems she's reaching for the access/phenomenal distinction with con/bocon distinction, but she associates zombies with the wrong concept.
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this makes me suspect mebbe u didn't understand my point (or maybe i failed to communicate it well). p-zombies were just a passing mention in my post to help point at the category of question im differentiating from bonsciousness. u view them as a bonsciousness question?
Maybe the access/phenomenal distinction cuts across yours. P-consciousness is supposed to be an essentially subjective thing -- a private qualia world -- but we can imagine others possessing it too (having their own distinctive private qualia worlds). It's PC that creates the HP