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Are those who support qualia comfortable with this semi-mystical nonsense? Because this is what bad philosophy looks like, this is where inept termino...

Citation. Because if you do not present what he actually says, then it's just humbug. My guess is that Dennett was arguing, again, against talking abo...

From https://www.imprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Farrell_Open_Access.pdf comes the notion that "something it is like..." is not drawing a sim...

Not so much. More because he used an ad pop that turned out to be wrong.

https://www.imprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Farrell_Open_Access.pdf Qualia seem to meet the three criteria set out for a technical term.

Yeah, no. This is about the language used to talk about sense and life. Qualia are an attempt to push an unneeded extra beyond the tase of the coffee.

Fucksake. The coffee tasting sweet is not ineffable either.

Twaddle.

Ad populum. From the PhilPapers Surveys Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Other 393 / 9...

So the only way to talk about conscious experience is via qualia? Can't you see how this approach has closed off the conversation? Sure; again, what h...

Not my definition. I borrowed it in order to show that it is a nonsense - literally, it has no sense; except in extending philosophical threads beyond...

Indeed - so which is Albert? SO much bad philosophy comes from folk 'effing the ineffable. Keep going - you are making my point better than I could.

Not I. The defenders of qualia claim to know him. Have a read of the SEP article.

Note the vacillation between qualia being just the commonplace of how something tastes and the ineffable how-it-seems-to-me? And somehow qualia are no...

Yes. So identifying Albert fails. I agree. So, to be consistent you should stop posting to this thread.

More poor language skills. No, it's Albert. Not the experience of Albert. And to those reading over Pop's shoulder - this nonsense is why qualia are u...

"...predict the phenomenal consciousness of a bee..." I hope you miswrote. What could that possibly mean? I gather it's different to predicting what t...

And you are happy with that self-serving argument? You receive the benefit of the slaughter and yet claim not to partake in its turpitude? There's som...

Here, medical abortions are done by prescription from a GP, basically for free. Surgical abortions are on Medicare, but there is often a co-payment of...

What extraordinarily convolute self-justification.

Delusions have their place.

SO is heaven.

And yet you so judge.

Is Albert the taste as the coffee hits the tip of your tongue? Is Albert the taste as you swirl it around your mouth? Is Albert the taste as you breat...

So let's look to the use... " ...there’s something it’s like to taste coffee" OK, let's call it Albert. Albert isn't the taste of coffee; it's how thi...

Actually, that phrase: "something it is like to..." is what does violence to the language. It's a recent invention found almost only in philosophical ...

Sure, you said that. But we are trying to work out the consequences of that. Both are spoken of; but you claim qualia are private. SO what is the natu...

Thoughts that might be spoken, but haven't been; as opposed to thoughts that supposedly cannot be spoken. Like, perhaps, qualia. But how to make sense...

I thought you thought qualia were somehow special; but this puts them on the same footing as chairs and other stuff, doesn't it? You and I agree that ...

...know... So you have a justified true belief? And we don't know that you see the board as bent? And this makes sense to you?

Cheers. I'd read the article a month ago, and was intending to post something, but bypassed it in a bunch of other threads. Recent events brought me b...

So the board appears to bulge, but does not really; and this is a private thing, despite our shared talk about it. And this is the sort of thing you w...

Thanks, @"Isaac". This thread has grown too quickly for me to read all of it, and I had thought that perhaps I was simply not deeply enough involved i...

Go back a step, then: Misanthropy is the moral condemnation of humanity. Not the hatred of humanity, but the recognition of their moral culpability. T...

The board looks like it is bulging, but it isn't. Nothing is added to the description by putting it in terms of qualia; hence, the term is of no use. ...

Unlikely. Complex issues require complex solutions. Autocrats see things simply. China is not autocratic so much as run by Confucian nepotism.

Trump's personality is beside the point. If it wasn't him, it would be someone else. And it will be someone else. Trump has shown the way for a future...

That doesn't actually say anything. Yes, and...

I don't think so. Any nuance will just be special pleading. There are a large number of folk for whom basic honesty is unimportant.

No, I don't. I mean that there are a very large number of folk for whom having a leader who lies is fine.

The take-home is that half of eligible voters wanted to put their trust in a liar.

Hm. Your style detracts from the legibility of your posts. Would you be surprised that an explanation of American voting regimes does not explain the ...

...and...? OK, there is some stability to the way things appear to us. That can be said, tested, verified, and all without invoking qualia. From what ...

What is your conclusion? Sure, there is a difference between what you see and how things are. And if that is the case, then there is a way that things...

'mercans need an independent body to run their elections.

Yep.

Best thing you've written in a while.

No, you don't, on your very own account. Anything goes. It didn't rain because the third violinist hit a bum note, or because the chorus girl's mum wa...

So... which are you?

Folk keep trying to set out the nature of the ineffable, and complaining when other folk point out that they can't. There's nought queer as folk.