Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of quale.
Examples
“The language used for the qualia is applied to the theoretical description.”
“Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious, 'auto-pilot' perception and behaviors, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.”
The Huffington Post: Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?
“Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious cognitive functions, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.”
“The knowledge argument points out that there are things about mental states - subjective experience called 'qualia' - that are knowledge that is not material.”
“The main argument against physicalism is usually thought to concern the notion of qualia, the felt qualities of experience.”
“BTW, the recognition that there are perceptual spaces, and that our so-called qualia are relational, does away with such dualistic nonsense as inverted spectra that assumes attributes of experience that are independent of any physical fact about the experiencer.”
US Scientists enlist clergy in evolution battle - The Panda's Thumb
“I have written several posts about qualia, which is the subjective nature of sensory experiences, such the experience of the color red, or the smell of coffee, or the 'hurt' of pain.”
“It is Brahman, the quantum field, or spacetime geometry which includes 'qualia', the sights, sounds, and textures of the world.”
The Huffington Post: Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?
“To account for the 'hard problem', the nature of experience, Penrose and Hameroff asserted that 'qualia', the components of conscious experience, are fundamental and irreducible components of reality, like electron spin, charge and mass - all derived from the omnipresent matrix of fundamental spacetime geometry at the Planck scale.”
The Huffington Post: Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘qualia’.
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Words inspiring Consciousness
We are inundated with words and phrases all day long, NOW let us inundate our MINDs with words and phrases that Inspire, Enhance and create the environment of greater understanding of ourselves and...
Regard, Compassion, Unitive, Solace, Syncronicity, Grace, Humility, Integrity, Nuturing, desire, will, sex and 12 more...
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Uncommon and Interesting words
That come in handy, but might make you look like a douchebag.
prurient, lithe, superannuated, wanderlust, sanguine, florid, slugabed, candor, eldritch, superbowl syndrome, indolent, perforce and 37 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Spe...
surquedry, equivocate, putative, turgid, congeries, irrefragable, quiddity, zaftig, flagitious, bloviate, perfidy, compendious and 227 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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words to know
proselytising, proprioception, qualia, indelibly, eristic, mellifluous, perspicacious, concilience, inure, tendentiousness, topos, parochial and 118 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
akrasia, akrates, particularism, particularist, mereology, deontology, cognitivism, naturalism, anti-naturalism, ethics, phenomenology, metaethics and 220 more...
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roguewraith's Words
quixotic, frith, estuary, obsequious, fawn, alliteration, furrow, fez, tyro, sallow, desultory, madrigal and 33 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for qualia.
Donald Coined by Gerald Edelman to describe the experience of "raw sensation". Jun 23, 2009
mollusque Esteemed researchers dared to talk about completing a mechanical model of memory, finding the structures behind qualia, even producing a full functional description of consciousness.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 189 Nov 7, 2008
chained_bear ...Maybe... Oct 23, 2007
vanishedone So if I deny the existence of quail, is that to quine quaglia? Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear You know, quaglia is pronounced the same way, and means quail (the bird) in Italian. Oct 23, 2007