--- Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus it seems to me that the panpsychist view ("Everything has qualia but
> some have more qualia than others") and the view that quale-intensity is
> associated with pattern-intensity are consistent with each other, and
> consistent with human experience.
>
> In this view "quale" is a different way of saying "pattern" and "quale
> intensity" is another way of saying "pattern intensity."
It sounds like it has a lot to do with attention allocation. I know, for
example, that stimuli presented for more than 5 ms but fewer than 50 ms can be
registered in the brain without being consciously experienced (thus the
information content was received without the phenomenological experience called
"qualia"). What we call qualia are the intensity of particular neural
ensembles training on a pattern, perhaps?
Martin Striz
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