Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.
I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk
yeah this 100%, it’s always the frustration i run into hearing hard (and imo reductive) physicalist/materialist arguments around this stuff. it almost always reads to me as coming from an ulterior motive of wanting to expand science beyond its purview, and/or of wanting to shortcut out the at times difficult cognitive dissonance that comes from the inherent ambiguity/mystery around philosophical questions.
Exactly.