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qualia = ("red", "blue", "cold", "pleasure")
memory_associations = { "red": ("anger", "hot")
, "blue": ("cold", "calm")
, "pleasure": ("hot", "good")
, "cold": ("blue", "calm")
}
def experience_qualia(in_qual):
for q in qualia:
if in_qual == q:
print "my experience of %s is the same as %s" % (in_qual, q)
else:
print "%s and %s feel different" % (q, in_qual)
print
print "furthermore, the feeling of %s seems connected to %s" % (in_qual,
" and ".join(memory_associations[in_qual]))
print "I have no way of reducing these experiences, therefore I exist outside physics"
def main():
experience_qualia("red")
print
experience_qualia("blue")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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