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?)