Qualia

- [note to self: add stuff about evolution]

Some people say qualia are just brain states and hence are philosophically unproblematic.

We can use this sort of move to get rid of other problems in philosophy. For example: self-contradictory propositions such as the extended liar paradox (This proposition is either false or meaningless) seem to be problematic. But self-contradictory propositions are just goldfish. Goldfish are philosophically unproblematic. So self-contradictory propositions are philosophically unproblematic.

Objection: qualia seem to be physically coextensive with brain states. Self-contradictory propositions are not physically coextensive with goldfish. OK. Try again. Self-contradictory propositions are just the numerical identity of 1 and 1, with which they actually are coextensive (since both are either everywhere or nowhere). The numerical identity of 1 and 1 is philosophically unproblematic. So self-contradictory propositions are philosophically unproblematic. There.