(May 17, 2013 at 10:41 am)ChadWooters Wrote:What is this size -I-?(May 17, 2013 at 8:34 am)Sal Wrote: Qualia is false.How can qualia be false? They just are. Are you saying that no one, not even you, actually experiences anything?
I am of the conviction that everything is reducible to the material. An idea, no matter what it is, is reducible to occurring in the brain. Spoken words are just sounds that are just vibrations in an atmosphere and so on. I think this is the same deal with everything that arises in my brain. "Thought" is just neural activity. So no, -I- don't actually experience anything.
These are constructs, sophisticated yes, but constructs nevertheless. Language is a construct able to articulate things not possible to exist in reality; that alone I think lends power to these constructs built by language. But do I think these constructs are reality? No.
I'm just one of Universes way to know itself and so is everyone else with a mind, however humble that mind may be. And "mind" is a construct of the brain that is part of reality.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
