#qualia — Public Fediverse posts

"Cross-modal remapping. During extensive sensory-substitution learning, the really interesting question becomes not merely whether auditory information activates visual cortex, but whether activity begins occupying dynamical modes normally associated with visual experience. If visual-like phenomenology eventually appeared, your theory predicts convergence at the level of these modes rather than necessarily convergence of the complete representational architecture." #BCI #blindness

The big challenge and Holy Grail of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is then to somehow (training, behaviors, other stimuli, drugs, ...) evoke in late-blind people the spatiotemporal brainwave constellations associated with normal vision (eyesight). #qualia

Conjecture: Human #qualia are not (so much) linked to relational structures, symmetries, sensorimotor invariants etc within perceptual content, but rather linked to a small set of specific discrete brainwave constellations evoked by the perceptual input. The idea is that the brain supports a small set of brainwave "resonant modes", and perceptual (or even imagined) content thrown at the brain makes brain activity fall into just one of these (qualia) modes. Content structures can nudge which mode, but it is not the thing itself.

It is always fun to probe AI's responses (here ChatGPT) https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa113e7-edd8-83eb-a631-2368192ec7cd

Conjecture: Human #qualia are not (so much) linked to relational structures, symmetries, sensorimotor invariants etc within perceptual content, but rather linked to a small set of specific discrete brainwave constellations evoked by the perceptual input. The idea is that the brain supports a small set of brainwave "resonant modes", and perceptual (or even imagined) content thrown at the brain makes brain activity fall into just one of these (qualia) modes. Content structures can nudge which mode, but it is not the thing itself.

It is always fun to probe AI's responses (here ChatGPT) https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa113e7-edd8-83eb-a631-2368192ec7cd

Matthew Soteriou has revised his SEP-entry on The Disjunctive Theory of Perception, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-disjunctive/

#perception #havainto #consciousness #tietoisuus #externalism #internalism #TechnoPhenomenology #mind #philosophy #filosofia #mieli #qualia #philosophyOfMind #illusion #hallucination #causality #realism #todellisuus #reality

🧠 #Matter vs. #Mind: In what worlds does our #brain live? 🌐

Today, #neuroscientists face a fascinating and, at the same time, profound #dilemma.

Share your thoughts with us in the comments! 👇

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

You can find this exciting interview at:

👉 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

#Brain #BrainResearch #Consciousness #Philosophy #WolfSinger #Zoomposium #Qualia #Neuroscience #FreeWill #Cognition #MindAndBrain #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Epistemology

🧠🌐#Consciousness: The Unity of All Things – Where Does It All Come Together in the #Brain?

This is exactly where our #Zoomposium with #WolfSinger comes in. Under the title “Can the Brain Understand the Brain?”, we’ll be challenging traditional notions of mind and matter.

📺 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

#BrainResearch #Neuroscience #UnityOfConsciousness #MindAndBrain #Philosophy #Qualia #FreeWill #Cognition #SystemsTheory #ExplanatoryGap #HardProblem #Neurophilosophy

#Zoomposium with #ThomasMetzinger Part 1: 🧠 #Phenomenology, #Modeling & the #ethicalBoundaries of #artificialConsciousness 🤖

🎥 Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/bn9m2CRot-Y

📎More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/03/15/selbstmodelle-metzinger/

#Consciousness #ComputationalPhenomenology #MinimalPhenomenalExperience #MPE #ArtificialConsciousness #SyntheticPhenomenology #AIethics #ArtificialSuffering #Qualia #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveNeuroscience #Subjectivity #ConsciousnessResearch #ArtificialIntelligence

#Zoomposium with #ThomasMetzinger Part 1: 🧠 #Phenomenology, #Modeling & the #ethicalBoundaries of #artificialConsciousness 🤖

🎥 Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/bn9m2CRot-Y

📎More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/03/15/selbstmodelle-metzinger/

#Consciousness #ComputationalPhenomenology #MinimalPhenomenalExperience #MPE #ArtificialConsciousness #SyntheticPhenomenology #AIethics #ArtificialSuffering #Qualia #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveNeuroscience #Subjectivity #ConsciousnessResearch #ArtificialIntelligence

#ColinMcGinn - What's the #Essence of #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK_SSlNgq6s

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Mystery #Brain #Introspection #Linguistics #Language #PsychoLinguistics #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #Color #Colour #Qualia #Perception #Sensation #Unity #Intentionality #IdentityTheory #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#RobertStickgold - Are #Brain and #Mind the Same Thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6m6rZnWg_w

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #BrainScience #Neuroscience #Dreaming #IdentityTheory #Sleep #Unconscious #Unconsciousness #Matter #Metaphysics #Awareness #SelfAwareness #Emergence #Qualia #Sensation #Feeling #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#NedBlock - What's the Stuff of #Mind and #Brain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUm7zhyFMY

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Consciousness #HardProblem #Neurosciance #ExplanatoryGap #Qualia #Experience #Attention #IdentityTheory #Panpsychism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#JohnHawthorne - What's the Essence of #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ophl3m0Ppmg&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Metaphysics #Qualia #Brain #Neuroscience #IdentityTheory #Correlation #NeuralCorrelates #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#DonaldHoffman - #QuantumPhysics of #Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tio1vJoTeKY&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #TheMind #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #QM #QuantumMechanics #Microtubules #QuantumState #Qualia #IdentityTheory #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#JosephLeDoux - What Makes #Brains #Conscious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8BSpt3PIM&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Consciousness #Emotion #Emotions #Feelings #MindBodyProblem #TheMindBodyProblem #Neuroscience #Neurophysiology #Brain #TheBrain #Perception #IdentityTheory #Qualia #PreFrontalCortex #Cortex #Language #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn