Re: Qualia Question



Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
> > Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
> > > "I assert that my toothache is just
> > > as physical as my typewriter."
>
>
> > Then why doesn't the dentist pull the
> > ache and leave the tooth?
>
>
> 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."


As someone once wrote, needles and chairs are
both made of atoms but are very different things
to sit upon. An ache is not physical in the same
sense that a tooth is physical.

You are merely making an analogy. A light wave
and a sound wave have things in common (wavelike)
but are different in nature.


JC

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