(June 15, 2014 at 10:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 15, 2014 at 10:32 pm)Irrational Wrote: Yes, I can do so by analysing and comparing their subjective feelings and making some inferences based on them.
How are you planning on examining their subjective qualia?
Go by what they describe orally or in writing. And if a select few of them can't speak and can't write, make inferences about them based on other human beings similar to them in many characteristics.
There's also fMRI scans to make use of as well.
Quote:Only a materialist monist would be likely agree with that statement. A monist idealist or duaist would not. That's part of the problem with the question, it's written from a materialist's point of view - and no theist is a material monist. They aren't going to agree, pretty much ever.
Of course they won't just simply agree, but isn't the point of the OP to get them to reconsider their position?
