RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 25, 2017 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2017 at 3:29 pm by Whateverist.)
(May 25, 2017 at 3:19 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 25, 2017 at 2:48 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Well if my point didn't entirely escape you I'd never know it by your response. That's why I thought it best to get my pompous ass game on, level 3.
I'll just plead ignorance on this one. Whatever it was, it was apparently just to clever for subtle for me at the moment. Work is so stressful right now I put my xanax in a Pez dispenser.
Might be time for you to ask your doctor if you may be suffering from cognitive dissonance. I wonder if the Betty Ford center could help?
(May 25, 2017 at 3:24 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 25, 2017 at 3:07 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I'll explain, for you and for Strawson(lol)...one more time. To say that some aspect of qualia is illusory, is to say little more than that some aspect of a stage illusion....is a stage illusion. That it is a misapprehension.
So when people get paper cuts, they don't really hurt, people just think they do? Or maybe it does hurt, but there isn't anyone actually feeling it?
Pain is certainly going on. That we can ask whose it is gives some insight into how hypnotism can sometimes allow people to disassociate from pain.
