Re: Qualia Question


"angola" <spamaddress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
> > "I assert that my toothache is just as physical as my typewriter."
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> Then why doesn't the dentist pull the ache and leave the tooth?
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The point is, of course, that the implication of your post was that
Skinnerians argue that people do not have feelings or introspect, but this
is not what they argue. They argue that what is introspected is behavior,
and behavior is physical, though it is not a thing.



And the answer to your frivolous question is: "Sometimes they do, in a
sense, when they administer either analgesics or local anesthetics."




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