UNFELT FEELINGS AND HIGHER-ORDER THOUGHTS (Reply to David Rosenthal)

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

Unfelt properties are not “qualitative states.” Qualitative states are felt states. The roundness of an apple is not a qualitative state, neither for the apple, nor for the robot that detects the roundness, nor for my brain if it detects the roundedness but I don’t feel anything. The hard problem is explaining how and why I do feel something, when I do, not how my brain does things unfeelingly. (Why doesn’t it do all of it unfeelingly?)

Link:

http://onthehuman.org/2011/04/doing-feeling-meaning-explaining/comment-page-1/#comment-6738

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Tags:

consciousness mind-body.problem feeling-function.problem feeling explanatory.gap meaning explanation other-minds problem oa.philosophy oa.humanities

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 12:39

Date published:

04/21/2011, 19:55