Michelle Liu and Edouard Machery: Is the 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' Nonsense Invented by Philosophers?
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The Effect of Valence on Pain
People are perfectly willing to assign smelling a valence, smelling a molecule that is unknown to them. They are very uncertain or as a very disambivalent when it comes to smelling banana and smelling vermit. So it does suggest that something right to the valence idea. Now you couldn't respond. Well, there's a connection between valence and phenomenality there. And I think one might also think that valence, if you have reductionist tendencies, you know, or functionalist tendencies, is something that a functionalist might actually get a handle on in the way that maybe phenomenality is much harder to explain.
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