Re: Qualia Question




Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
> In any event, the whole issue of qualia
> is wrong-headed. What we introspect is
> behavior. We observe such behavior and
> declare that we, for example, "see depth"
> or "see vibrant colors," etc. You want
> to say "But what really is this that we
> experience? It's not the sorts of neural
> events the scientist observes with his
> or her instruments," and that is right -
> it is behavior - it is the behavior that
> we acquire when we "learn to see," "learn
> to hear," etc. The aspects of behavior
> that we acquire because the world has
> three spatial dimensions ARE what we
> observe when we say "I see depth," etc.


But why does one behavior "feel" this way
and another behavior "feel" another way?

Trying to classify everything as a behavior
doesn't seem to resolve the fundamental
issue. To say one behavior is "seeing depth"
and another behavior is "seeing red" doesn't
in itself explain the subjective nature of
the experience.

JC

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