RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 1, 2016 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 2:10 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(October 1, 2016 at 11:19 am)bennyboy Wrote: Tell me how you know ANYONE experiences anything subjectively, i.e. can experience qualia.
What does that even mean? You are equivocating. First you need to define what it means to experience something subjectively then we can see if it matches reality.
(October 1, 2016 at 11:19 am)bennyboy Wrote: It seems to me if you are really going to take such a strong position on mind, you'll have at least be able to determine unambiguously what physical systems do or don't have it. Are you able to do this?
No. First you need to determine unambiguously what you mean by 'qualia' and know how to spot it before you ask someone else to determine what physical systems do or don't have it.
I think qualia is a bullshit term of absolute no use whatsoever. It's a term like free will. You are making the assumption that it actually exists. I don't. What you are doing is using an ill defined term and then because no one knows what it really even means, then demanding that someone can match it exactly to some aspect of reality. And when they flounder because they don't even know what they are supposed to be looking for, you use it to fill in what you want to believe.
Your position is based on asking questions that are framed in way that they cannot be answered because they are ill specified and then drawing conclusions from that.
