Re: John Searle

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From: Christopher Green
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:08

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In article <BzEvzJ.1s1@cs.bham.ac.uk> ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.173641.17791@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec14.033936.11786@cs.su.oz.au> danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny) writes:
>>
>>Well, to take the old chestnut of qualia, how do you objectively determine
>>that what I see as red is the same sensation of colour as what you see
>>as red?  How do you know that I don't see red things as being blue? 
>>- michael
>
>So long as we can successfully communicate, then it doesn't matter
>if your experience of the sky is similar to mine.  

It matters to anyone who doesn't adopt the rather crude pragmatism that
you have just endorsed. Some of us are interested in truth, not just
whether or not something "works"

-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

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