• A
  • A
  • A
  • АБВ
  • АБВ
  • АБВ
  • A
  • A
  • A
  • A
  • A
Обычная версия сайта
  • RU
  • EN
  • HSE University
  • Publications
  • Articles
  • Иллюзионизм и квалиа
  • RU
  • EN
Расширенный поиск
Высшая школа экономики
Национальный исследовательский университет
Priority areas
  • business informatics
  • economics
  • engineering science
  • humanitarian
  • IT and mathematics
  • law
  • management
  • mathematics
  • sociology
  • state and public administration
by year
  • 2028
  • 2027
  • 2026
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999
  • 1998
  • 1997
  • 1996
  • 1995
  • 1994
  • 1993
  • 1992
  • 1991
  • 1990
  • 1989
  • 1988
  • 1987
  • 1986
  • 1985
  • 1984
  • 1983
  • 1982
  • 1981
  • 1980
  • 1979
  • 1978
  • 1977
  • 1976
  • 1975
  • 1974
  • 1973
  • 1972
  • 1971
  • 1970
  • 1969
  • 1968
  • 1967
  • 1966
  • 1965
  • 1964
  • 1963
  • 1958
  • More
Subject
News
September 21, 2026
Researchers Develop Methodology to Assess the Quality of Legal Representation in Criminal Proceedings
Having a good defence attorney in criminal proceedings can largely determine whether a defendant retains their freedom, health and good name. Researchers at HSE University propose a method for predicting an attorney’s performance based on the outcomes of their previous cases. The methodology takes into account the severity of the charges, the complexity of the cases, and the most likely outcome, drawing on judicial statistics.
September 21, 2026
Algebra, Geometry, and AI: Russian and Vietnamese Mathematicians Discuss Current Research
A delegation of scientists from Hanoi visited the HSE Faculty of Computer Science and then took part in a Russian-Vietnamese conference in St Petersburg. The events were part of the three-year project ‘Flexibility and Computational Methods.’ Over the course of the project, the researchers have prepared joint publications and obtained new mathematical results.
September 18, 2026
When Pictures Hinder Understanding: Illustrations May Impede Learning of Abstract Ideas
Illustrations can help remember specific actions but do not always make abstract ideas easier to learn. Researchers from HSE University and Humboldt University compared how people learn from texts with different levels of abstractness. They found that participants remembered illustrations better and performed better on related tasks after reading a multimedia text about yoga asanas than after reading an abstract text about the Nash equilibrium. The findings could help improve the selection of illustrations for educational and informational materials. The study has been published in Learning and Instruction.

 

Have you spotted a typo?
Highlight it, click Ctrl+Enter and send us a message. Thank you for your help!

Publications
  • Books
  • Articles
  • Chapters of books
  • Working papers
  • Report a publication
  • Research at HSE

?

Иллюзионизм и квалиа

Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология. 2023. № 76. С. 18–26.
Gorbachev M.

Illusionism is a physicalist theory of consciousness, according to which phenomenal consciousness is an introspective illusion that appears as a result of the functioning of introspective mechanisms that represent non–phenomenal properties as phenomenal ones. In contrast to classical qualia, which are subjective, ineffablejudge and our perception of them is direct and unmistakable, illusionism offers "zero qualia" – properties of experience, by virtue of which we are disposed to claim that we possess classical qualia, without actually possessing them. Zero qualia are quasi-phenomenal properties.

Perceptual illusions are usually given as examples. For example, even knowing the mechanism of the focus with the "sawing" of a person, I will still be subject to an illusion – it will seem to me that I see two halves of a person not connected to each other. Illusionists believe that if I can be wrong in such cases, then I can be wrong in the case of qualia: there is something that seems to me – my experience has phenomenal properties – and what is real – the absence of qualia.

Cost–effectiveness is one of the main advantages of the illusionist approach to qualia. Although it is equally important that illusionism, firstly, allows us to expand and improve our argumentation about qualia, having illusionist arguments against them before us; and secondly, it emphasizes the difference between qualia and available for study from a third-person perspective. The latter may suggest the idea of both illusion and specific reality of qualia.

However, the problems with the illusionist approach are more significant. One can note the strategy of counterargument against the possibility of zombies, which boils down to the assumption of their impossibility and does not offer a strong argumentative alternative. It is also impossible to justify one's own position, since if qualia are illusory, everything can be an illusion, including the content of the illusionist approach. In addition, the conceptualization that illusionists often point to as the reason for the belief about qualia does not actually cover current qualia, but is aimed at past ones. Therefore, the statement about the possibility of an error about qualia loses its force, and, therefore, the statement about the lack of special access to them.

Research target: Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
Language: Russian
Text on another site
Keywords: феноменальное сознаниеквалиаиллюзионизм в теории сознания
Publication based on the results of:
Phenomenological Trends in Philosophy in the 20th and 21st centuries: Origins, Influences, Development (2023)
Similar publications
CONVIVIAL OR MANIPULATIVE TOOLS? LLMS IN RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION (THE CASE OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES)
Шиповалова Л. В., Социология власти 2026 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 224–243
This article examines the integration of large language model based chatbots into educational practices in Russian higher education through the lens of critical theory and curriculum ideologies. Drawing on Ivan Illich’s concept of convivial tools and Jürgen Habermas’s distinction between instrumental and communicative rationality, the authors conceptualize large language models as technologies capable of operating ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Гуманизм и милосердие: доминирование добродетелей
Жигунов А. Ю., Patria 2026 Т. 3 № 3 С. 12–28
The study is devoted to the identification of the specifics of humanism and mercy as traditional spiritual and moral values of modern Russia. The special role of these axiological attitudes, frankly virtuous nature suggests their dominant position. Avoiding discussion about the interpretation of these categories, an attempt is made to identify the implementation of virtuous actions, which can be ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Российская история в философской перспективе (размышления над книгой). К 70-летию А.А. Кара-Мурзы
Zhukova O., Вопросы философии (Российская Федерация) 2026 № 8 С. 51–64
The article is a critical and philosophical analysis of a new book by the Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksei A. Kara-Murza. His fundamental work “Selected Works on Russian Philosophy, Politics and Culture” (2024) contains articles in the field of philosophy of Russian history, completed by the author over the course of ten years. Essays, ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Пролетаризация труда в условиях развития искусственного интеллекта
Моисеев Г. В., Гуманитарные исследования в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке 2026 № 2 (76) С. 58–68
The article presents a philosophical analysis of the transformation of labor in the context of the spread of AI technologies. Criticizing the notion of AI as an autonomous and neutral technology leading to the replacement of human labor, the author proposes to analyze the social consequences of AI development within the framework of automation processes ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Vague stimulating ideas, images and metaphors in scientific thinking: researchers' work with horizons of unclear knowledge
Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
СОЦИАЛЬНЫЙ КАПИТАЛ И ЭТИКА ОТМЕНЫ
Ермоленко Г. А., Кожевников С. Б., Вестник Московского городского педагогического университета. Серия: Философские науки 2026 № 1(57) С. 9–18
This article explores the phenomenon of social capital in the context of contemporary media communications and its relationship with the phenomenon of cancellation ethics. The authors examine the mechanisms by which social capital functions in the digital space and how it is transformed by cancellation practices. The research methodology draws on theoretical approaches to understanding the ...
Added: September 11, 2026
Может ли ИИ производить значение? Семантический капитал, «стохастический попугай» и пределы антропоцентризма
Филатова А. А., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 2 С. 154–171
intelligence (hereafter, AI), particularly in the form of large lan guage models, has prompted a renewed wave of philosophical debates concerning the semantic competences of technical sys tems and the criteria for evaluating the outputs they generate, especially textual outputs. This article examines a set of central problem areas and their treatment in contemporary philosophical ...
Added: September 10, 2026
Знание в цифровую эпоху: избыточность романтизма
Faul B., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 2 С. 41–50
In the article “Knowledge in the Digital Age: The Redundancy of Romanticism”, a critical analysis is offered of Konstantin Ocheretyany’s argumentation as presented in his essay “Epistemic Nihilism and Existential Romanticism: Knowledge in the Digital Age”. Two scenarios proposed by the author – techno-pessimistic and techno-optimistic – are examined, and it is shown that the ...
Added: September 9, 2026
АМБУЛАТОРНОЕ СЧАСТЬЕ
Малышкин Е. В., Логос 2024 Т. 34 № 6 (163) С. 217–232
In his main works, René Descartes, in addition to such an impressive metaphysical construction, over and over again gives promises of happiness, which must certainly accompany the study of philosophy according to a new model. What exactly is this happiness and is the Cartesian construction capable of fulfilling this promise? For whom can it come? ...
Added: September 8, 2026
ТЕСТ ТЬЮРИНГА И РАСПРЕДЕЛЕННОЕ ЗНАНИЕ
Малышкин Е. В., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 2 С. 64–69
The article begins with several critical remarks about Konstantin Ocheretyany's paper. The conclusion of these remarks is that the dangers presented in the article under discussion, in the spirit of epistemic pessimism, are not frightening, and the problems raised are much older than the emergence of language models. The article is conceived in terms of ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Медиа в цифровом пространстве
Гришин С. Е., Дугарова С. Б., Завьялов А. Е. et al., М.: Издательство "Перо", 2026.
The monograph outlines the subject and problem fields of media research, highlights the role of media in modern society and the influence of media on social processes, and examines the main theoretical approaches and empirical methods for studying media in a digital society. The monograph is addressed to a wide range of researchers in the ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Культурно-исторические основы самобытности российской цивилизации
Ахмадуллин В. А., Базилико Э. А., Бакланов В. И. et al., М.: Издательско-торговая корпорация «Дашков и Ко», 2026.
The monograph is devoted to reconstructing the uniqueness of Russia’s historical path — its culture, social system, and religious, philosophical, and political thought. Based on a synthesis of various sciences and approaches, the authors summarize and comprehensively demonstrate the distinctiveness of Russian traditions.  The uniqueness of Russia is revealed through a vast body of factual material as a ...
Added: September 8, 2026
ПЕРВЕРСИВНЫЕ ИНТЕРФЕЙСЫ: ЗИЯНИЕ, ДРЕЙФ И ПУЛЬСАЦИИ КАК ОНТОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ СТИЛИ В КОМПЬЮТЕРНЫХ ИГРАХ
Очеретяный К. А., Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 85–102
We use interfaces to disconnect from the situation around us, from the persistent experience of the outside world, from our neighbors. It is this ability of interfaces to legitimize “absence” that is usually overlooked in their analysis, as the emphasis is on concentration, management, and control. In reality, interfaces are not so much pragmatic and ...
Added: September 7, 2026
Что такое Свобода? Свобода воли, свободы личности, конституционная модель и законодательное регулирование
Момджян К. Х., Кржевов В. С., Poddiakov A. et al., М.: Новые печатные технологии, 2025.
При всей кажущейся ясности и недвусмысленности понятия «свобода» дать ему исчерпывающую научную дефиницию весьма затруднительно. У каждой отрасли знания свой подход к трактовке этого многоаспектного понятия. В ходе обсуждения, материалы которого вошли в настоящий сборник, свобода рассматривается с позиций философии, социологии, юриспруденции, психологии, нейрофизиологии и т.д. Участники дискуссии рассуждают о границах свободы воли и субъектности человека, о соотношении свободы и ...
Added: September 6, 2026
Problem solving in philosophy. How to Do Philosophy in the Age of Ultra-Intelligent AI
Vervoort L., Springer, 2026.
This open access book provides a method for philosophical problem solving, offering philosophers the tools to stay ahead of machine intelligence. Louis Vervoort argues that, with ultra-intelligent AI knocking at the door, philosophy can no longer rely solely on its ancient methodological toolkit. The proposed method is essentially the same as used in natural science, ...
Added: September 5, 2026
Судьба средневекового папства в современной России
Потехина И. П., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 2. История 2026 Т. 71 № 2 С. 525–533
The review is dedicated to the fourth volume of the “History of the Roman Popes” (2024), which represents a continuation of the long-term scholarly project lead by the philosopher and historian Vitaly L. Zadvorny. The volume itself is dedicated to the popes of the 11th - early 13th centuries and generally continues the traditions laid down in ...
Added: September 3, 2026
Краснее красного. Иллюзионизм или феноменальный сюрреализм?
Humphrey N., Философский журнал 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 99–106
Sensations represent our subjective ‘take’ on sensory stimulation – how we feel about redlight falling on the retina, salt dissolving on the tongue, a thorn piercing the skin. Theytell – in the language of phenomenal properties – what the experience is like for us. In sofar as they represent the reality of this subjective relationship, ...
Added: June 19, 2026
Сюрреализм – иллюзионизм на языке феноменального реализма
Gorbachev M., Философский журнал 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 107–117
This is a commentary to the translation of Nicholas Humphrey’s article “Redder thanRed. Illusionism or Phenomenal Surrealism?”, where he proposes what might seem to bean alternative to the illusionist theory of consciousness – phenomenal surrealism. Hismain idea is that our subjective experience is more real than objective reality, sincethelatter lacks, for example, the funny, the ...
Added: June 19, 2026
Иллюзионизм (не) против сентиентности
Gorbachev M., Омский научный вестник. Серия «Общество. История. Современность» 2026 Т. 11 № 1 С. 108–114
The article is devoted to the question of the compatibility between the illusionist theory of consciousness and the widely accepted sentientist approach to the justification of moral status. Illusionism denies the existence of phenomenal consciousness and qualia, claiming that we are disposed to believe that they exist due to a systematic introspective distortion. If phenomenal consciousness does not ...
Added: March 5, 2026
ИЛЛЮЗИОНИЗМ, РЕАЛИЗМ И ПРОБЛЕМА ВЕРИФИКАЦИИ ДИСПОЗИЦИИ
Gorbachev M., В кн.: Революция и эволюция: модели развития в науке, культуре, социуме: Труды V Международной научной конференции.: М.: Русское общество истории и философии науки, 2025. С. 369–372.
Illusionists have proposed an explanation for our tendency to make phenomenal judgements, attributing this disposition to introspective illusion that emerge from the functioning of the human brain. However, a crucial aspect of the illusionist approach is that such an illusion is precisely dispositional and does not necessarily lead to actual beliefs about qualia. A critique ...
Added: December 4, 2025
Illusionism and the distortion thesis
Gorbachev M., Frankish K., Synthese 2025 Vol. 205 No. 6 Article 247
The illusionist theory of consciousness denies the existence of the ‘phenomenal’ properties widely thought to render experience conscious. Central to the illusionist approach is what we call the distortion thesis — the claim that introspective mechanisms systematically misrepresent neural processes in a way that strongly inclines us to judge that they have phenomenal properties, creating ...
Added: May 26, 2025
Иллюзионистский тезис об искажении: Какой может быть иллюзия феноменальности? // Наука, технологии и ценности в неустойчивом мире: сборник научных статей / Научн. ред. и сост. И.Т. Касавин, Н.А. Ястреб, Л.В. Шиповалова [Электронный ресурс]. – Москва: Изд-во «Русское общество истории и философии науки», 2024. – 950 с. ISBN 978-5-6051212-2-0. С. 561-564
Gorbachev M., М.: Русское общество истории и философии науки, 2024.
Согласно иллюзионистскому тезису об искажении, интроспекция искажает сложные физические свойства как простые феноменальные и создает иллюзию феноменальности. В докладе рассмотрено, какие модели искажения подходят для иллюзионизма. Эти паттерны предлагаются в связи с тремя характеристиками: позитивность, концептуальность и рассеиваемость. Позитивное искажение – это репрезентация отсутствующего на самом деле феноменального сознания. Негативное искажение представляет собой упрощенную или ...
Added: September 26, 2024
Квайнирование диетических квалиа. Часть II
Frankish K., Вопросы философии 2024 № 8 С. 48–59
This is the second part of the article by Keith Frankish Quining Diet Qualia, which asks whether we can identify a neutral explanandum for theories of phenomenal consciousness, acceptable to all sides. The “classic” conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve this purpose, but it is widely assumed ...
Added: May 25, 2024
Квайнирование диетических квалиа. Часть I
Frankish K., Вопросы философии 2024 № 7 С. 131–138
This is the first part of the article by Keith Frankish Quining Diet Qualia, which asks whether we can identify a neutral explanandum for theories of phenomenal consciousness, acceptable to all sides. The “classic” conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve this purpose, but it is widely assumed ...
Added: May 25, 2024
  • About
  • About
  • Key Figures & Facts
  • Sustainability at HSE University
  • Faculties & Departments
  • International Partnerships
  • Faculty & Staff
  • HSE Buildings
  • HSE University for Persons with Disabilities
  • Public Enquiries
  • Studies
  • Admissions
  • Programme Catalogue
  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
  • Exchange Programmes
  • Summer University
  • Summer Schools
  • Semester in Moscow
  • Business Internship
  • Research
  • International Laboratories
  • Research Centres
  • Research Projects
  • Monitoring Studies
  • Conferences & Seminars
  • Academic Jobs
  • Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development
  • Media & Resources
  • Publications by staff
  • HSE Journals
  • Publishing House
  • iq.hse.ru: commentary by HSE experts
  • Library
  • Economic & Social Data Archive
  • Video
  • HSE Repository of Socio-Economic Information
  • HSE1993–2026
  • Contacts
  • Copyright
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map
Edit