[Wittrs] Strawson on Experience and Experiencers
- From: Joseph Polanik <jpolanik@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:37:05 -0500
Cayuse wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>it sounds like you are abandoning your hopeless position --- again.
>There has been no change in my position -- the argument that "there is
>conscious experience, therefore there is an experiencer" is invalid.
as I have reminded you on innumerable previous occasions, *my* argument
is 'I experience; therefore, I am ... an experiencer'.
the argument 'there is conscious experience, therefore there is an
experiencer' is your third person version of my argument --- and you
have indeed abandoned your efforts to prove it is invalid.
>>first, this has nothing to do with the 'hard problem' of explaining
>>how it happens that there is experience at all. it's about whether
>>one can draw a conclusion from the fact that there *is* experience.
>The hard problem results from conflating two different language games
>for the word "experience", one which rightly pertains to the physical
>organism and its ability to acquire skills (the experiencer), and one
>which pertains to the existence of the data of conscious experience.
understanding that there are two language games involved may be the
first step in unconflating them; but, the hard problem is grasped when
there are two related games both seen as worth playing.
>>secondly, there is no postulating of the experiencer. that there is
>>something which experiences is a conclusion not a postulate. that we
>>can call that something an experiencer is a choice an act of naming.
>My use of the word accords with the dictionary definition, so I'll
>stick with it thanks: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/postulate
obviously, you lack experience in the skill of distinguishing an
assumption from a conclusion.
Joe
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