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Philosophical perspective on qualia and perception
The speaker discusses the experience of perceiving a tree and the concept of qualia. He presents the question of how the qualia of looking at a tree, a subjective experience, can be triggered by the objective existence of the tree. He then offers a metaphor of cells realizing a new organ of perception, like a periscope, to explain this compositionally organized perception. The argument is that an individual's powers are limited to those that are compositionally realized.