Research and Applications of Qualia – The Unit of Subjective Experience

Abstract

This paper performs a detail study on the present state of research in the study of mind-body problem that is termed as ‘qualia’ or the ‘phenomenal experience’. The term ‘qualia’ (singular: quale) in Latin has continued to exist in philosophical discussions of the epistemological status of sensory experience, an essential problem of western philosophy. Consciousness has been studied in vast interdisciplinary fields like humanities, sciences, philosophy, academicians, musicians, computer science, physicialism and many more. Further we also talk about how experts talkt in terms of mental illness to tackle the problem of metal disorderliness in the civilization. We in this paper discuss about the inception of philosophy up to the present state with all the description of various stages of evolution in sciences and study on the consciousness in various fields.