Tag: qualia
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe
By way of further support for the importance of qualia in scientific endeavour, Nick Thomas refers us, in his fourteenth paragraph, to the authority of Werner Heisenberg. …
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 5 – Parallelism
In his sixth to twelfth paragraphs Nick Thomas gives detailed examples based on our experience of colour, compared with a physicist’s handling of colour. I give his examples verbatim…
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 4 – Understanding
Continuing on to Nick Thomas’ fifth paragraph, here he emphasises the importance of an understanding of qualia, a word used to identify each of our experiences of, or in response to the world. The most elementary of these arise from our basic senses. They include sights, sounds, tastes and smells….
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 3 – Contingencies
Let me start with a summary in my own words of Thomas’ previous paragraph. In this he showed that all science is ultimately based on human experience. Let me give an example of my own here…
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 2 – Qualia
In his third paragraph, Nick Thomas tells us that science requires the establishment of objective standards – free from personal opinion. Qualities are difficult to define objectively, so science has confined itself to just two shareable, objective foundations…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 