subjective experience ↔ qualia

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Qualia are defined as the fundamental components of subjective experience, as philosophers use the term to refer to the 'what it is like' quality of mental states [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5].

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Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com Capturing Christianity 1 fact

claimPhilosophers use the term 'qualia' to refer to subjective experiences.

Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact

referenceQualia arguments emphasize the impossibility for materialist accounts to properly incorporate the quality of the subjective experience of a mental state, described as the 'what it is like' to be in that state (Nagel 1974).

Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact

claimQualia arguments challenge strongly reductive approaches by emphasizing the impossibility of incorporating the quality of subjective experience, or 'what it is like to be' in a mental state, into a purely material description.

A harder problem of consciousness: reflections on a 50-year quest ... frontiersin.org Frontiers 1 fact

claimThomas Nagel introduced the concept of qualia into mainstream philosophical discourse in his 1974 paper, 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?', which articulated the difficulty of explaining subjective experience in objective terms.

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence? A Framework for Classifying ... arxiv.org arXiv 1 fact

claimThe authors of 'Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence? A Framework for Classifying Objections and Constraints' define consciousness as phenomenal consciousness, which Thomas Nagel described as the fact of there being 'something it is like' to be a system, involving qualia or subjective experience.