Consciousness, Qualia, and Self (V.S. Ramachandran)

Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD, discusses consciousness, qualia, and self.

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[xdionx]

He looks like Neil Degrasse Tyson's Indian cousin

[Sean Michel-White]

2 sides of a mobius strip? Don't you mean one? xP

[Ziggy Stardust]

This guy is full of himself.

[Joemar Eusebio]

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[Antzus81]

Yes and yes! He means, follow the first side of the Möbius strip (investigation of qualia) long enough and you'll realise it runs seamlessly into the "second" side (the Self), and it's actually two views of the one thing.

[Antzus81]

I would say it is, though it's hard to pin down a definition of "qualia". A personal experience is a bunch of qualia all jammed together and then filed away in episodic memory. These experiences are pulled out again and to some extent re-experienced during empathy - what you're describing there. Generally what you're aware of experiencing as empathy is more a vague emotion, which is a result of re-living these qualia.

[105mm]

I would argue that we arrange qualia relative to other qualia. IE: when we feel something first, we reference other instances of that feeling to the first time, and/or the most intense time (which could be the same instance)

So, unless the intensity of a new feeling's qualia overwhelms anything experienced before (essentially becoming itself a new experience), no, we can't feel the same indefinitely.

We reference being the most loved/hurt/angry/whatever to our most intense experience of it.

[landdcollection]

Just wondering: When reading or listening to one talk about an emotional experience, many times humans are able to feel the same. Would this be considered as qualia?

[Idealist Physicist]

hahahahahahaha

[scratrulz]

this guy should act in a movie. seriously...

[arun kumar]

Hi, most South Indians stress the letter "R", I think its because of mother tongue influence.