[Wittrs] Re: reducing your toothache
- From: "SWM" <SWMirsky@xxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:23:59 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gordon Swobe <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
> --- On Wed, 3/24/10, SWM <wittrsamr@...> 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
He never says you can't talk about or describe your pains in a subjective way
or that you can't really have them. His denial of "qualia" is a denial that we
have to posit a special kind of mental entity to explain the occurrence of
subjective experience. Read him on it. -- SWM
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