An Even Harder Problem of Consciousness (!): The qualia might be unique between individuals, without any way to compare a quale of a person with the same-name quale for another person. For example, we can't know (at least for now) if the redness of a rose is similar for person A versus B.
The question is if the redness for person A at time 00:00 is similar to the exact same person A, one hour later. How can we know that our qualia change or not over time? Can we?
I assumed we can't because all we have for us to compare our new experience of "redness" with older experiences of the very same quale is our memory. And it is not known if any subjectivity is attached to our memories.
So it is quite possible that each time I see red, I am actually experiencing a different quale but think it is the same red because I have no reference to compare quale 1 with quale 2. All I have is memory 1 and memory 2 (which are equal, because both of them are for the same color).
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Here it becomes relevant the difference between fundamental feeling and qualia.
Pure pain and pleasure are the same for all. These are true raw feels.
In contrast, the pleasure of a certain piece of music or of a certain dish are far more complex and will vary between people. These are not truly raw feels. They are elaborate and incorporate information.
Karl Sipfle how do we know that pure pain is the same for one person over time, let alone the same for all?
Because it is a behavior of the physical universe. Individuals will experience some variation because a human level experience occurs on a very large scale in very large woven brains that are not identical. But the character of the experience will be exactly the same. "You" came long after pain. "You feel pain" is a view of our minds. What is happening is that pain is happening, within you.
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