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*Can subjective experience be measured scientifically?*
Naotsugu Tsuchiya argues that understanding consciousness requires mapping the mathematical relationships between experiences like color, sound, emotion, smell, and pain, creating a challenge every theory of consciousness must explain.
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Why Qualia Matter Most
2:16 The Missing Piece in Consciousness Research
3:50 Building a Mathematical Map of Experience
5:12 Measuring Qualia Across Thousands of People
6:30 Testing Learning and Development
8:30 Expanding Beyond Color to Every Sense
11:07 What Every Theory of Consciousness Must Explain
14:09 Why Vision, Sound, and Smell Feel Different
*Naotsugu Tsuchiya* is a Professor of Consciousness Science at Monash University whose research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness, perception, and subjective experience.
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* Closer To Truth: The Podcast: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pLLkP0kHQKL9nZh35UkgkR_
* Tsuchiya’s Relational Approach to Qualia: loc.closertotruth.com/theory/tsuchiya-s-relational-approach-to-consciousness
* Closer To Truth contributors: closertotruth.com/contributor/naotsugu-tsuchiya
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*Can subjective experience be measured scientifically?*
Naotsugu Tsuchiya argues that understanding consciousness requires mapping the mathematical relationships between experiences like color, sound, emotion, smell, and pain, creating a challenge every theory of consciousness must explain.
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Why Qualia Matter Most
2:16 The Missing Piece in Consciousness Research
3:50 Building a Mathematical Map of Experience
5:12 Measuring Qualia Across Thousands of People
6:30 Testing Learning and Development
8:30 Expanding Beyond Color to Every Sense
11:07 What Every Theory of Consciousness Must Explain
14:09 Why Vision, Sound, and Smell Feel Different
*Naotsugu Tsuchiya* is a Professor of Consciousness Science at Monash University whose research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness, perception, and subjective experience.
*More from Naotsugu Tsuchiya on Closer To Truth:*
* Closer To Truth: The Podcast: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pLLkP0kHQKL9nZh35UkgkR_
* Tsuchiya’s Relational Approach to Qualia: loc.closertotruth.com/theory/tsuchiya-s-relational-approach-to-consciousness
* Closer To Truth contributors: closertotruth.com/contributor/naotsugu-tsuchiya
*Subscribe to Closer To Truth:* youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV
*Join the Community:*
* Membership (5,000+ videos): closertotruth.com/register
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Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
#CloserToTruth #Reality #NaotsuguTsuchiya #Consciousness #Qualia
