blroadies wrote:
However, I disagree, if this is what you are saying or think LW is saying, that "what is it like to be me" cannot be empirically studied. In sum: while pain isn't a thing to which language refers, it is still a subject matter which can be worded and studied. And the treatment of an amputee's pain is no less objective than the medical treaatment of his stump. This is the work I do.
I'm reminded of LW's statement that "The conclusion was only that nothing would serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said" (PI 304). In order to do the work you do, it is not necessary that the patient's "beetle box" should contain /this/, or something else, or anything at all. "[T]he object drops out of consideration as irrelevant" (PI 293).
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