# Introduce yourself!

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/introduce-yourself/122>\
**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [May 12, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/introduce-yourself/122 "2016-05-12T03:02:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/introduce-yourself/122/182 "2021-07-04T12:48:12Z")

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> [@Falco](#):
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> This is interesting. Could someone turn this into a thread of its own, please?

Here you go:

> [@Qualia Disqualified](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/qualia-disqualified/8723):
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> Here you go, chew on this: It’s not hard to see how philosophers have tied themselves into such knots over qualia. They started where anyone with any sense would start: with their strongest and clearest intuitions about their own minds. Those intuitions, alas, form a mutually self-supporting closed circle of doctrines, imprisoning their imaginations in the Cartesian Theater. Even though philosophers have discovered the paradoxes inherent in this closed circle of ideas—that’s why the literature …

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