"Qualia are high-order discriminations among a large number of states of the dynamic core...they are both highly integrated and extraordinariy informative" (p. 155).
The sensation of redness as the sensation of NOT orange-indigo-violet-yellow-blue-green? The taste of strawberries as NOT the taste of everything else? What it's like to be a bat as NOT what it's like to be anything else?
That's their use of the concept of "information."
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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