Re: Qualia Question


"JGCASEY" <jgkjcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
> > > 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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> 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.
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> You are merely making an analogy. A light wave
> and a sound wave have things in common (wavelike)
> but are different in nature.

Is a lever-press physical? What about a wave of the hand? Is it physical
when I say something?

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> JC
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