/sci/ - Science & Math

Qualia is not scientifically provable.

>>4888286
neither is the statement 'red is a number', which is also absurd to anyone who isn't actually a robot.

>>4888286
[Citation needed]

>>4888299
that's not how it works. If you have a source that scientifically proves qualia, share it. We should all know by now that negatives cannot be proved.

>>4888318
You can't "prove" raw subjective conscious experience, but you can feel it.

I experience it and unless neuroscience or reductionistic science has an answer I can never prove it.

Unless you're calling yourself a zombie I think it's pretty hard to say "Qualia is not real even though I experience it"

>>4888286
So you're saying you don't feel? At all?

>>4888318
These people exist

What the fuck is a tulpa?
I get linked to some Buddhist page when I search for it.

>>4888360
>summerfags

>>4888360
>tulpa
Is a pseudoscience recurrent theme in /sci/ threads. Think of it as a variation to a sun made of ice and a sun made of lava, and qualia, and EK threads. In short it belongs to the set that makes /sci/ shit.

The actual meaning of a tulpa is some eastern-mystic type variation of a demonic spirit residing in your head though with less evil intent.

>>4888360
A tulpa is a vein on the penis that has become enlarged and/or darkened so that it has become obvious and unnatural.

>>4888360
threads seem to pop up every so often, i only skim them, but as far as i can work out, a 'tulpa' is just a synonym for an imaginary friend.

>>4888574
Like harriet?

Pic related, it's my tulpa.
I tried to teach her the mathematical concept of limits, but she refuses to learn.

>>4888579
erm, nope. shes not imaginary, is she? imaginary people arnt tripfags.
(yes, i know she isnt here anymore, but she WAS a tripfag)

>>4888582
i lol'd

>>4888582
Bodhidharma say, I'd hit that tulpa

>>4888360
You should ask that on /mlp/, they used to have entire threads centered around people wanting to give themselves imaginary pony friends.

Seriously, go ask them.