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But is this qualia?

No.

Qualia is the mental state of "knowing what it is like" to have a particular mental state.

by ATinNM on Sat Oct 18th, 2008 at 02:09:39 PM EST
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Right, and what it is like to subitize as opposed to count is just about irrelevant to arithmetic.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 18th, 2008 at 02:12:25 PM EST
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