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Sunday, January 11, 2004
| Category: Qualia Qualia appears to be a new product range from Sony but it's all a bit impenetrable. Qualia 000 appears to be a flash presentation about the colour red and how important it will be to the future of Sony. The Qualia 016 is a very small digital camera with a price tag of $US3980. As of December 12 last year, all of 133 had been sold over the course of roughly six months. The other different, but closely related, Qualia are those described by Ken Mogi who says: Despite the great advances in neuroscience, we are still at the alchemist's phase when it comes to the essential question: what are the first principles which makes it necessary that our subjective experiences accompany the physical processes in the brain? We may laugh at the alchemists' ignorance with the benefit of the hindsight, but our future descendants might laugh at the ignorance of our present time on the origin of consciousness as well.I think that is a pretty reasonable view, but this: The concept of qualia describes the unique properties that accompany our senses. It is an essential concept when we try to understand the principle that bridges the neural firings in our brain and our perception. The idea of qualia is also of crucial importance when we try to study the functions of the brain from an objective point of view. Qualia must be part of the mathematical formulation of information we use to understand the function of the brain.makes me feel like a drunk, stoned sixth-former on a beach at midnight. I suspect Ken Mogi might be an intellectual because I can't understand a word he says. More to come as we |
