RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 19, 2020 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2020 at 6:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If you insist on using the stolen concept fallacy I obviously can't remove the stolen concept fallacy from a version of your statements.
If your entire position contains a stolen concept fallacy, then so be it. Doesn't have to.
If you think that we can't observe consciousness, then you cannot simultaneously think that we observe the correlates of consciousness. You think that we can observe behavior.
Even more specifically, with reference to what the subject or the cat knows that the researcher doesn't..this is probably closer to what you would accept as an observation of consciousness. That's the bar you're flirting with. Seeing what the cat sees, experiencing what it experiences. Can't do that with me, either, though it does seem as though conscious contents are in some ways transferable, you've noted language, for example. Notice that nowhere do I refer to observing the correlates of consciousness, because the notion is incoherent with believing that we can't observe consciousness.
I don't find that particularly compelling, but at least it isn't a stolen concept. I don't need to experience being a cat to say that a cat has experiences. I kind of assume that the whole bit would be a huge jumble to me, just dumped into a cat brain..if I fit (which I doubt).....but that's not the subject of inquiry.
If your entire position contains a stolen concept fallacy, then so be it. Doesn't have to.
If you think that we can't observe consciousness, then you cannot simultaneously think that we observe the correlates of consciousness. You think that we can observe behavior.
Even more specifically, with reference to what the subject or the cat knows that the researcher doesn't..this is probably closer to what you would accept as an observation of consciousness. That's the bar you're flirting with. Seeing what the cat sees, experiencing what it experiences. Can't do that with me, either, though it does seem as though conscious contents are in some ways transferable, you've noted language, for example. Notice that nowhere do I refer to observing the correlates of consciousness, because the notion is incoherent with believing that we can't observe consciousness.
I don't find that particularly compelling, but at least it isn't a stolen concept. I don't need to experience being a cat to say that a cat has experiences. I kind of assume that the whole bit would be a huge jumble to me, just dumped into a cat brain..if I fit (which I doubt).....but that's not the subject of inquiry.
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