1. In regard to mental imagery and other lack of qualia phenomena, it seems to me that the lack of qualia can be in the other directions in all cases. For example, people who say that they can form mental images, may not have qualia for real life imagery, so both experiences are more of the same to them.
How you can distinguish between those two possibilities?
2. People without qualia (if exist) will have their “real” interpretation of stuff like “vivid sensation of my own presence”, and i think that most definitions will failed to find them.
And to be more specific to your definition—non-qualia person will still have awareness for his presence and a self. And still will have more awareness for what he think and his body when meditate.
Mental imagery: Drawing seems to reliably distinguish between coherent-mental-visualizers and those who aren’t. Tasks like “count the stripes on the tiger” make sense to a vivid/detailed visualizer, but not to someone who is just holding on to the concept “striped big cat.”
I suspect drawing-attempts would also reliably identify people like “The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, who viewed people as a “disorganized bag of facial-features” and had to rely on a single distinctive trait to identify even people he knew well (ex: Albert Einstein & his eccentric hairstyle), and who described things that weren’t there when trying to interpret a low-feature image like a picture of the dunes of the Sahara.
1. In regard to mental imagery and other lack of qualia phenomena, it seems to me that the lack of qualia can be in the other directions in all cases. For example, people who say that they can form mental images, may not have qualia for real life imagery, so both experiences are more of the same to them.
How you can distinguish between those two possibilities?
2. People without qualia (if exist) will have their “real” interpretation of stuff like “vivid sensation of my own presence”, and i think that most definitions will failed to find them.
And to be more specific to your definition—non-qualia person will still have awareness for his presence and a self. And still will have more awareness for what he think and his body when meditate.
Mental imagery: Drawing seems to reliably distinguish between coherent-mental-visualizers and those who aren’t. Tasks like “count the stripes on the tiger” make sense to a vivid/detailed visualizer, but not to someone who is just holding on to the concept “striped big cat.”
I suspect drawing-attempts would also reliably identify people like “The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, who viewed people as a “disorganized bag of facial-features” and had to rely on a single distinctive trait to identify even people he knew well (ex: Albert Einstein & his eccentric hairstyle), and who described things that weren’t there when trying to interpret a low-feature image like a picture of the dunes of the Sahara.