VITALISM, ANIMISM AND FEELING (Reply to Anil Seth)

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

Although the English word “feel” happens to be used mostly to refer to emotion and to touch, not only does it also feel like something to see, hear, taste, move and smell (in French “je sens” refers to emotion and to smell), but it also feels like something to think, believe, want, will, and understand. It is not “intentionality” (a weasel-word for the fact that mental [another weasel-word] states are “about” something or other) that is the mark of the mental, but the fact that mental states are felt states. Hence, apart from their “correlated” doings, “conscious states… convey meaning precis

Link:

http://onthehuman.org/2011/04/doing-feeling-meaning-explaining/comment-page-1/#comment-6737

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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, 19:53