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The elusive quale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Howard Rachlin
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794. hrachlin@psych1 .psy.sunysb.edu

Abstract

If sensations were behaviorally conceived, as they should be, as complex functional patterns of interaction between overt behavior and the environment, there would be no point in searching for them as instantaneous psychic elements (qualia) within the brain or as internal products of the brain.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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