Peterdjones comments on Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 29 November 2012 06:19AM

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Comment author: Peterdjones 29 November 2012 11:47:30PM 1 point [-]

What I had in mind was, for example, his advise about dissolving the question, which is not the same advice you'd get from logical positivists or (most) contemporary naturalists

I don't see the significance of that. You definitely get it from some notable naturalists,

Comment author: lukeprog 30 November 2012 10:13:18PM *  0 points [-]

I skimmed the paper. Dennett's project is a dissolving one, though he does less to explain why we think we have qualia than Yudkowsky did with regard to why we think we have free will. But perhaps Dennett wrote something later which more explicitly sets out to explain why we think we have qualia?