[Wittrs] Re: To Be Or Not To Become ... A Lobotomite

  • From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:30:34 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Mon, 5/24/10, SWM <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [Dennett] is not interested in eliminating ordinary references to
> subjective experience or in denying that we have subjective
> experience. His point is to explain the occurrence of such
> experiences by reference to something more basic (something
> constitutive, to use a term that has recently gained some
> cachet heree!) which is not, itself, experience,
> subjectiveness, etc.

Dennett's effort to explain subjective experience in terms of something "more 
basic" amounts to complete nonsense, as anyone with basic subjective experience 
knows.

-gts


      
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