[Wittrs] Re: Is the "self" metaphysical and useless?
- From: "Cayuse" <z.z7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:08:51 -0000
BruceD wrote:
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Cayuse wrote:
...useless metaphysical idea of self as experiencer.
Two questions. What makes a concept "metaphysical" and what makes it
"useless."
I leave the metaphysical to you. But, all day long, I have use for
the distinction between my experience and others.
Conscious experience isn't an empirical phenomenon -- it makes no appearance
in the data provided by the sense organs. It only appears in conscious
experience as an idea, and one that is supported neither by direct empirical
evidence nor by indirect empirical evidence. I think you must be confusing
conscious experience with some aspect of behavior and information
processing -- if so then I too have use for the distinction between my
behavior and information processing, and that of others. As for the idea of
an experiencer, I can do no better than quote Laplace's answer to Napoleon
when asked about the idea of god: "I have no use for that hypothesis".
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