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Universitas Philosophica
Print version ISSN 0120-5323
Abstract
BACHLER SILVA, Rodolfo. DISAGGREGATING QUALIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR FUNCTION IN COGNITIVE PROCESSES. Univ. philos. [online]. 2018, vol.35, n.70, pp.15-41. ISSN 0120-5323. https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uph35-70.dqpc.
This article presents a reflection about the different types of phenomenological properties of mental states, also known as qualia. With the objective of identifying the role of qualia in cognition, the qualitative nature of phenomenology is discussed. It is proposed that knowing is a process by which new forms are given to experience through the progressive elucidation of its qualitative properties. Second, the characteristics of two different types of qualia and their roles in cognition are analyzed. A first type, with intrinsically cognitive characteristics, is associated with emotions and other similar states that participate as a center of thought, as a result of their accessibility to self-consciousness. A second type, consisting of perceptual qualia or sensations, corresponds to consciously inaccessible phenomena, and thus plays a representational role that does not depend on its specific qualitative characteristics.
Keywords : qualia; emotion; sensation; knowledge; experience.