Qualia as Intervening Variables in the Understanding of Music Cognition

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  • W. JAY DOWLING
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In seeking to understand why we experience the world the way we do,I propose looking at qualia—the experienced properties of stimuli—asintervening variables, defined by stimulus-response relationships speci-fied by converging operations, and linked (as closely as is possible) withperceptual experience. Examples from music cognition, particularlypitch perception, illustrate the usefulness and some of the intricacies ofthis approach. I offer some comments on Daniel Dennett’s critique ofthe concept of qualia (1988), agreeing with Dennett that in science we

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تاریخ انتشار 2010