quale
Raw conscious feeling
A quale is the subjective, felt quality of a conscious experience—what it's like to see red, taste coffee, or feel pain.
Philosophers use the term (plural: qualia) to distinguish raw sensory experience from the physical processes that produce it.
The concept raises questions about whether subjective experience can ever be fully explained by neuroscience: No brain scan captures the quale of tasting chocolate.
State of sentient awareness
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
- rednessCrimson-hued state
- painfulnessQuality of causing hurt
- first-person"I" as narrator
Perceived stimulus or phenomenon
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- warmthHeat you feel
- coldnessLow temperature state
- sweetnessSugary taste quality
bitterness · loudness · brightness · sense-data · afterimage · phosphene · tinnitus · synesthesia
Philosophy of opposed pairs
- physicalismAll is matter
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- JacksonCommon surname and place
- intentionalityPurposeful action quality
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
- rednessCrimson-hued state
- painfulnessQuality of causing hurt
sensation
Perceived stimulus or phenomenon
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- warmthHeat you feel
- coldnessLow temperature state
sweetness · bitterness · loudness · brightness · sense-data · afterimage · phosphene · tinnitus · synesthesia
dualism
Philosophy of opposed pairs
- physicalismAll is matter
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- JacksonCommon surname and place
Chalmers · intentionality · naturalism · reductionism · emergence
Handling and interpreting data
- quality timeMeaningful interaction period
- high qualityExcellence in construction or standard
- quality of lifeGeneral life satisfaction
- quality controlMaintaining production standards
- poor qualityBelow acceptable standards
- air qualityPollution level measurement
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