Sniffnoy comments on Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience - Less Wrong

37 Post author: lukeprog 24 April 2011 08:24PM

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Comment author: shokwave 25 April 2011 11:37:42AM 2 points [-]

You can be wrong about what your experience is referring to out there in the world or elsewhere in your body or mind. But you cannot be wrong about the contents of your immediate experience.

Well, yes, but this feels to me to be about as trivial as saying "You can be wrong about the correct answer to a maths question, but you can't be wrong about what answer you're giving".

Comment author: Sniffnoy 25 April 2011 01:46:34PM 2 points [-]

It's certainly possible to say one thing while thinking you're saying another, though!