[Wittrs] Re: reducing your toothache

  • From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:17:42 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Wed, 3/24/10, SWM <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As I've said before, you are misreading Dennett here. He
> never says you can't talk about or describe your pains in a
> subjective way or that you don't really have them.

Yes he does. He denies the existence of 'qualia' as such -- what Searle would 
call 'qualities of experience'. He considers them a sort of illusion. 

-gts




      
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