Peterdjones comments on Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia - Less Wrong

38 Post author: orthonormal 26 May 2011 05:47PM

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Comment author: dspeyer 27 May 2011 12:36:31AM 3 points [-]

This does not match my experience doing things after studying them thoroughly. Unless your definition of "everything physical about color" includes neurology far beyond the state of the art.

Comment author: Peterdjones 27 May 2011 12:53:43PM 3 points [-]

The Dennetian Answer isnt based on anything that actually happens.It's based on having a really, really strong intuition of physicalism.

Comment author: orthonormal 27 May 2011 08:20:25PM 2 points [-]

Exactly. It's not a refutation so much as a bullet-biting, which is unenlightening even when correct.