# 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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**Author:** ![alastair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@alastair](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/alastair)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/introduce-yourself/122/183 "2021-07-04T22:08:50Z")

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I’m curious about qualia. If you assume that there’s a collection of neurons somewhere (in V1 I suppose) which fire when you see something red, then they would have a 1-1 correspondence to the sensation of redness - see a red car, imagine a red unicorn, listen to someone spell out the letters “R-E-D” and those same neurons should fire every time. So “experiencing the sensation of redness in any way” would then be a synonym for “this specific group of neurons is active”. If that’s the case, then it seems to me that there’s no real depth to qualia : “redness” in all its forms is just the label we adopt to denote that those neurons are active. It seems such a simple argument that I suspect I’ve missed something in the definition of qualia : can someone enlighten me ?

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