# Scientific qualia

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**Created:** [June 8, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-qualia/1019346 "2025-06-08T23:05:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientific-qualia/1019346/4 "2025-06-09T04:52:42Z")

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> [@EnolaStraight](#):
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> Apparently, qualia can now be scientifically tested.  
> [Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time – It was thought to be impossible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD2A_bhDTI)
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> Does this mean this field of study is no longer philosophy, but science?

They did not measure qualia. Video title is misleading crap.

This thread is probably of relevance:

> [@Sabine Hossenfelder - anti-science?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sabine-hossenfelder-anti-science/1009449):
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> Professor Dave has made a video criticizing Sabine for increasingly publishing anti-science and anti-establishment rhetoric, on her site, and in her articles for The Guardian and in her book. It starts out very civil but later he points out ways he thinks she is being dishonest and even lacking integrity. The reason for making this thread is two-fold: We were discussing Sabine as a tangent in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-but-why-is-c-the-speed-limit-of-the-universe), so it seems this tangent now merits its own thread. Both professor dave and Sabine are …

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