DaFranker comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaFranker 21 September 2012 11:23:29PM 0 points [-]

It just establishes that if they, they covary with physical states in the way that would be expected from identity theory.

I... err... what? My mastery of the English language is insufficient to compute the meaning of the I-assume-is-a sentence above.

Comment author: Peterdjones 23 September 2012 02:15:07PM 1 point [-]

I meant

"It just establishes that if they exist, they covary with physical states in the way that would be expected from identity theory."

But thats not the whole problem. It establishes they covary with physical states in the way that would be expected from identity theory, and Chalmerserian dualism, and a bunch of other theories (but maybe not Cartesian dualism).

Tests need to distinguish between theories, and yours doesn't.

Comment author: DaFranker 24 September 2012 02:09:37PM 0 points [-]

Hmm. I thought it did. I guess I need to review a few things.