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Nelson Goodman's qualia and the Discrete Cat Mapping

Godofredo Iommi Amunategui

arXiv Preprint Archive September 23, 2013 preprint

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Keywords Math.ds
Key points Proposes that the Discrete Cat Mapping can serve as a mathematical model for qualia in Goodman's system.

Abstract

In The Structure of Appearance Nelson Goodman aims at describing the world as composed of individuals. He builds his system on phenomenal qualities or qualia. We propose a mathematical model for the qualia based on a dynamical system, the so-called Discrete Cat Mapping.

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