So...following that principle...what does a 'painkiller' kill, metaphorically? (Not nit-picking, by the way, just trying to follow through what you're...
So it is still a thought experiment then isn't it. All we have is someone who obviously doesn't know all there is to know about red and you're assumin...
This thread has already got very far from the OP, so I'd rather not discuss it here. It's been discussed at length in https://thephilosophyforum.com/d...
The public meaning can't possibly refer to an experience, how would we ever learn what word to use if the only thing they referred to was private expe...
Yes. Is there some limit you had in mind to the number of things a public concept can be party to? How do you know phenol-thio-urea is a substance whi...
But this is not true. The taste doesn't exist as an experience for someone. The taste is a public concept. The experience is a unique set of memories,...
An interesting thesis. So for your first port of call I recommend the Manchester undergrad course https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/cou...
It's not at issue. We don't just make up neuroscience to have a discussion about it. There is no part of your brain which shows you a colour, it canno...
You don't see a colour in your brain. Why Am I having to repeat this? You do not see a colour. There's no part of your brain which represents a partic...
That's what 'a red apple' means. adding 'what we call...' to it implies that there might actually be a red apple other than what we call one. I doubt ...
Yes. A red apple. If you ask people to pass you the red apple, do you generally find they pass you the one you were expecting? How? We're you taught t...
No, just inventing an extra entity without any apparent reason. The apple has a taste - two ontological commitments, that there is an apple, and that ...
To an extent yes. A lot of people hang a lot of their professional respect on being expert in matters which would take too long (and too much risk of ...
What is the difference between the quality of the experience and the experience? What is 'the way' doing here?. The taste of an apple is the taste of ...
What is so difficult to grasp about the fact that what seems obvious to you is not obvious to others? Are you suggesting that 'obviousness' is some ki...
Yeah, maybe. Then i suppose those we must show, or pass over in silence. Spot on. There seems no purpose for this wierd intermediary 'qualia', neither...
Wouldn't talking about our inner lives count as sharing them? Otherwise how would we select the words which might constitute such a conversation if th...
I had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense_verse in mind. Maybe you're using a stricter meaning of sensical than I, but I don't think the subject ...
Who judges whether it's been solved or not? You? Chalmers?... Why? Without having studied the properties and functions of all non-conscious stuff, how...
How do you know that the work I've linked doesn't tell you how non-conscious stuff produces conscious experience? Look, the means by which this non-co...
An interesting thesis. So for your first port of call I recommend the Manchester undergrad course https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/cou...
Except that... is exactly that, a prediction about the future - that there would be no observations of black swans in it. Again, you're ignoring the e...
I'm not sure what you might mean by the difference. It's obviously a really complex subject, but a 'mental image' from memory consists of almost exact...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29754898/ But I wasn't so much interested in persuading you, that seems a Sisyphean task (not you personally, just in ...
Surprise has nothing to do with it. I might be surprised by a purple swan because I wasn't expecting one. This is the part about time-dependant belief...
...which equates to your error above (not that this hasn't already been pointed out). P(A|B) is not the same as P(A and B). You're misunderstanding Ba...
Which beliefs? I never believed that all my observations are accurate and unambiguous. What I believed prior to seeing the purple swan was that some o...
So what belief has been falsified here? Not the belief that there are only white swans. Not the belief that I haven't seen any purple swans (I'm presu...
The problem is only with the definition of the set. If you say all Xs just happen to have property Y, you're expressing a probability function between...
Well, yeah. Except we then go on to look at which cases are which, we carry out carefully designed experiments to distinguish the two cases, we make p...
I was busy for a few days and this thread seems be going nowhere so I'm sorry if this reply is no longer relevant, but I didn't want to just leave it ...
So how would you describe the sensation of decreasing distance between two ridges (felt with the finger), which, on later examination with a ruler, tu...
What is 'the same'? I'm not sure what you're saying here. We use terms Luke 'solid', 'really', 'actually' differently in different contexts and we see...
You said... If you say to me "this block of wood is solid", and I cut it open to find a hollow in the centre, I'd be liable to say "no, this is not so...
Right, so if all our terms, all our language, just means what it means to us a lay people, then what language is left to the scientist in which to ren...
More foundationalism. If your conclusion is in any way problematic, that is just as much cause to question your premises as your premises are cause to...
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