Unfelt Feelings (and Unexplained Correlations)

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

...If all "knowledge" were unconscious, there would be no hard problem, and we would not be discussing consciousness here (just perhaps the "easy" functional matter of voluntary versus involuntary behavior and accessible versus inaccessible internal information)...And the question-begging and incoherence here was precisely the notion of an "unconscious headache" -- which, when stated transparently, without equivocation, would be an "unfelt ache," which amounts to an "unfelt feeling": a contradiction in terms (like an uncurved curve or a colorless color)...

Link:

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/skywritings/index.php?/archives/195-Unfelt-Feelings-and-Unexplained-Correlations.html

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Tags:

mind-body.problem feeling-function.problem feeling oa.philosophy oa.humanities

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 12:31

Date published:

02/24/2012, 08:47