Qualia
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Sep 21, 2026
MattHOST
One more quick question.
MattHOST
This is from, uh, Qualia from Kenya.
MattHOST
And Qualia says, "Hey, if you could go back in time and change the outcome of any match in history, which match would it be?" Wow.
MattHOST
[sighs] Good question.
MattHOST
Change the outcome of any match in history.
Christopher HeathGUEST
I don't think I'm down with dissolving the Cartesian theater, confused attitudes about...
Christopher HeathGUEST
Qualia being over and above the physical or somehow a special ingredient that can't be accounted for by the, all that stuff I'm on board for.
Christopher HeathGUEST
I just, as I've reiterated before in the conversation, I wish I could just text Daniel and ask him for some clarifying questions just about whether he's okay with A subjectivity that has evaluative properties that through developing different abilities of understanding itself as a boundary, feedback loops with its environment and action, and how those coalesce to produce, I guess, the seemings that are phenomenal consciousness.
Christopher HeathGUEST
And why we wouldn't, if he's okay with talking about those things, divorced of Cartesian theater ideas, ineffable, private, metaphysical.
speaker_4HOST
This is exactly the friction Hinton anticipates.
speaker_4HOST
To understand his point, we have to dive into the philosophy of mind, specifically a concept known as qualia.
speaker_3HOST
Qualia.
speaker_4HOST
Yes.
speaker_4HOST
Philosophers have debated your exact reaction for centuries.
speaker_4HOST
So because philosophers needed a word to describe this non-physical mental stuff, they invented the term qualia.
speaker_4HOST
They argue that your mental image is made of pink qualia and elephant qualia, and floating qualia all held together by some mysterious qualia glue.
speaker_3HOST
Qualia glue.
speaker_0HOST
Lesson 14, Qualia, Turning Information into Feelings.
speaker_0HOST
Walk into a kitchen where something is cooking.
speaker_0HOST
Before you have consciously registered anything, several things have already happened.
speaker_0HOST
But the illusion doesn't assemble itself.
speaker_0HOST
It is built, continuously and mostly invisibly, by an infrastructure of non-conscious processing that takes the raw swirl of physical signals and turns them into something the agent can actually feel and act on.
speaker_0HOST
Qualia are the output of that process.
speaker_0HOST
A quali, the singular of qualia, is an independent parallel information channel into the conscious mind.
speaker_0HOST
Each sense, each internal signal, each distinct kind of felt experience arrives through its own dedicated channel, carrying its own specific kind of information, contributing its own thread to the fabric of illusion.
Dylan CaseyHOST
I don't understand what that is, but tell me what the thing that is missing-
Seth PaskinHOST
Qualia.
Seth PaskinHOST
Yes.
Dylan CaseyHOST
Okay.
37 MINS LATER
Dylan CaseyHOST
Okay
Seth PaskinHOST
... that little thought experiment, which is, let's call this uncontroversial in the sense of there's no trick being played or what have you.
Seth PaskinHOST
Qualia can't only exist in hypothetical cases of epistemic uncertainty.
Seth PaskinHOST
So the question is, this notion of, oh, well, there's something it's like for me to have the experience of the blue behind Dylan's shoulder that we all share, that we all can, simply because that thing that w- the experiment we just had could not be adequately captured in the language of scientific materialism already right there feels like a bridge too far.
Dylan CaseyHOST
I don't understand what that is, but tell me what the thing that is missing.
Christopher HeathGUEST
Qualia.
Seth PaskinHOST
Yes.
Dylan CaseyHOST
Okay.
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Dylan CaseyHOST
Okay
Seth PaskinHOST
... that little thought experiment, which is, let's call this uncontroversial in the sense of there's no trick being played or what have you.
Seth PaskinHOST
Qualia can't only exist in hypothetical cases of epistemic uncertainty.
Seth PaskinHOST
So the question is, this notion of, oh, well, there's something it's like for me to have the experience of the blue behind Dylan's shoulder that we all share, that we all can, simply because that thing that w- the experiment we just had could not be adequately captured in the language of scientific materialism already right there feels like a bridge too far.
MJHOST
Now I ask him to go to DOJ, then it appears again.
MJHOST
So how could I automatically call the first answer that it gave me absolute truth? Brings me to another word that you and I discussed s- was qualia.
MJHOST
That was back in part two, what is consciousness? Qualia is the first-person quality of experience.
MJHOST
In other words, cold water.
MJHOST
AI can identify the temperature of a cold water.
LoriGUEST
Yeah.
James TrueHOST
Qualia time.
James TrueHOST
And all these require a more sophisticated anatomy to understand these things.
James TrueHOST
The same way where the heart is too innocent to understand just how precious it is, so too were we not ready to understand just how important qualia was.
Cynthia LeeHOST
That's the, let's see, that's your scientific proof reality.
Stephen JamesHOST
Qualia.
Cynthia LeeHOST
Qualia.
Cynthia LeeHOST
I'm going to go to...
Stephen JamesHOST
Which is the quality of the
Deepak ChopraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It doesn't explain anything.
Deepak ChopraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, what needs to be understood is something called qualia mechanics.
Deepak ChopraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Qualia is quality of experience.
Deepak ChopraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, just like a photon, is a unit of electromagnetic energy, an electron is a unit of electricity, a photon is a unit of light, so too is a qualia a unit of experience, such as the color red, or the taste of strawberry, or the texture of a rose.
Deepak ChopraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
or the smell of garlic.
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