ORCHESTRAL SUMMERIZED EXPERIENCE OF CHEMISTRY AND FORCE
In 1994, David Chalmers, australian, in full curly blond hippe hair entered the podium and famously made a stir at the conference ”The science of consciousness” in Tucson, Arizona, a conference lead by now well known anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff by introducing a new concept concerning consciousness; ”the easy” and ”the hard” problem. No one had made the bold suggestion of dividing the problem of consciousness problem into two. An ”easy” problem being how the brain does things, perceives and register things, processing language, thinking, understanding the brain’s physical processes. And a ”hard” problem involving subjective experience, our feelings, experienced colors, sensing a sent from a rose. This is ”hard” according to Chalmers because we don’t have a method for explaning subjective feeling. Qualia as a mysterious special window of perception connected, related to deeper associative layers of the unconscious. But unexplainable. To Chalmers so far.
Although my short description above is an oversimplification, neither problem sounds easy to me.
From ”the hard problem” follows the more specific concept of ”Qualia”, among filosophers a widely accepted term for inner subjective experience or feelings or perceptions of let’s say experiencing the color ”red” or tooth ache. A popular wonderous beautiful latin word.
The subjectivity of the concept makes it hard to explore, but there are hints in the mist. I think one has to start at cellular level. How does a cell disciminate between different environments, friends or foes? For survival reasons it’s of course an advantage to detect and remember exterior changes. This ”intuitive”, yet to be explained, knowledge making the cell intelligent.
But qualia is a subjective experience craving self awareness, so qualia doesn’t come into play until the complexity organisms has conscious abilities to internally experience ”red”. A cell has it’s own internal qualia in it’s own way.
How can the perceptions, differences of qualia we are witnessing, in a crude attempt be explained?
Qualia has character. It’s an indicator, it points to something, it means something.
Qualia is a quality, it’s nature’s way of showing us, it’s a way of making us see, descriminating the differences.
Qualia through the ages has also made a point of being different from each others. An important aspect of consciousness thus the ability to discriminate and seeing, observe differences.
”I passed a man shoveling gravel on a stone slab. I noticed the sharp irregular unpleasant scraping sound. I even felt the sound in my body, causing similar fictive ripples in my interior because of my experiences hurting myself on gravel. The sound was qualia. I have other memories driving my palm of my hand into the gravel falling of my bike. Feelings sublimated, refined, added, summerized. The sound was associated with a plethoria of prior experiences, real and imagined. Qualia is an abundance of subliminal familiar associations just merely realized.”
An animal´s experience of a color green makes the animal use the knowledge but it becomes a color only when the experience becomes conscious. That is as a human.
Qualia “adds” an experience invention, the discrimination of different physical, chemical influences on the body. Qualia are sensory experiences based on the influence of the environment on the body. Chemical, electromagnetic radiation, acoustics, physics. Qualia is an advanced practical summarizing of experience.
QUALIA AS AN INTERNAL LANGUAGE
To be continued..