RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
December 23, 2016 at 9:02 am
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2016 at 9:03 am by Mudhammam.)
(December 23, 2016 at 3:21 am)bennyboy Wrote: Qualia cannot be shown to exist in any physical system without a question-begging redefinition of the word into physical terms.Do you mean, if I say, "Hey Benny, what color is my shirt?" and you say, "red," what I perceive as "red" may in fact be perceived by you as "green," and thus, I have no way of knowing if my perception of "red" (or any other phenomenal experience) is strictly had within or without the context of a physical system? Cannot this be similarly framed to posit the existence of Cartesian Egos or other "nonphysical" entities, though, at least in this instance, our experiences are directly perceived -- if not communicable but only in terms that may or may not accurately represent/convey another's experience?
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