PhilGoetz comments on There just has to be something more, you know? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 March 2010 12:21:53AM 1 point [-]

Subjective experience and phenomenology are hardly 'mysterious questions': they have been described in reasonable detail by many philosophers.

I don't think you can possibly mean what I think you mean. Surely you don't mean that subjective experience is not mysterious.

Maybe you mean that the questions are not ill-formed?

Comment author: bogus 25 March 2010 12:31:49AM *  0 points [-]

What I mean is that we can tell what a reasonable answer could look like, since we're not looking at a sealed black box.

From what we know, it seems that quantum monism can set a rather high standard of reasonableness, even though it might not be the correct answer to the subjective experience question.