[Wittrs] Re: I Experience Cayuse Talking in Circles
- From: "BruceD" <blroadies@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:11:18 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Cayuse" <z.z7@...> wrote:
> If we meet and speak, you would be a physical object in the data of
> experience that looks and behaves in a manner to which the ascription
of
> personhood would be quite appropriate.
That is to say, I may be a robot, zombie or ordinary human being.
Typically, we size this situation up so fast that we probably don't
realize we are doing so. "Sizing up a situation" means evaluating the
empirical data-- the way I see it. But you claim...
> But there would be no empirical evidence of any putative "experiencer"
> associated with that physical object..
which doesn't make sense to me because above you say "ascription of
personhood." The ascription is based on the data. No? Do you just
randomly assign personhood to physical objects?
> and neither would there be anything in the data of experience that
gives
> grounds for postulating the existence of such a conceptual entity for
the
> purpose of explanation.
I don't know what you have in mind by the expression "conceptual
entity." When I ascribe personhood I'm not purposing there is concrete
entity which is the person, yet I'm saying that the person is embodied
in his body. In that sense, the human body is expressive in the way that
sticks and stones are not.
bruce
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