RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 28, 2017 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2017 at 10:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's like you've got two arguments running over each other in your head. That he's wrong, or that he's being unreasonable.
For the very last time. Dennet thinks that there is some x we call consciousness. Yes, he thinks that some mental states, that most people believe in....such as the feeling of being associated with the humonculus, do not, will not, and cannot map to discrete mental states. Mostly, because there doesn't appear to be any humonculus(for example), and there -does- appear to be a whole set of distributed, non-localized processes and structures that present themselves as-such to us.
If that humonculus doesn't exist, that won't stop you from feeling as-though it does, right? There's no need to deny that you feel as-such, oir that you feel, in order to say that this feeling is illusory, is there? In that vein, if consciousness is defined along the lines of the homunculus in the cartesian theater, then..no, in Dennets opinion..it doesn;t exist. He thinks that definition is shit, though, so he;s going to need to get a better one if he wants to explain what he thinks is actually happening, right?
For the very last time. Dennet thinks that there is some x we call consciousness. Yes, he thinks that some mental states, that most people believe in....such as the feeling of being associated with the humonculus, do not, will not, and cannot map to discrete mental states. Mostly, because there doesn't appear to be any humonculus(for example), and there -does- appear to be a whole set of distributed, non-localized processes and structures that present themselves as-such to us.
If that humonculus doesn't exist, that won't stop you from feeling as-though it does, right? There's no need to deny that you feel as-such, oir that you feel, in order to say that this feeling is illusory, is there? In that vein, if consciousness is defined along the lines of the homunculus in the cartesian theater, then..no, in Dennets opinion..it doesn;t exist. He thinks that definition is shit, though, so he;s going to need to get a better one if he wants to explain what he thinks is actually happening, right?
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