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Comment author: bogus 23 July 2010 06:37:00PM *  0 points [-]

Daniel Dennett's "refutation" of the Cartesian theater has been widely criticized. Basically, he relies on perceptual illusions such as discrete motion being perceived as continuous, arguing that there should be a fact of the matter as to whether "the motion in the Cartesian theater" is continuous or not. But phenomenology is far simpler (or more complicated) than that: the fact that we perceive the quale of continuous_motion does not imply that a homunculous somewhere is seeing the object in an intermediate position at each given moment in time. It is a strawman argument.

Comment author: RobinZ 23 July 2010 07:00:41PM 0 points [-]

Before I respond: are we actually getting anywhere in this discussion? I have this sinking feeling that I'm asking the wrong questions.