Re: Dualism

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From: Joseph O'Rourke
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:30

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In article <BuG1nK.DGL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> 
	chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

>Not so with consciousness: even when
>you've told the whole story about behaviour and its physical causation,
>there still seems to be a vast explanatory gap between that and
>the phenomenon of consciousness itself.

This "seems to be" is controversial:  Dennett in particular questions
the vastness of the gap (in "Consciousness Explained").  
	Could the gap just result from the inadequacy of third-person 
descriptions from capturing a first-person experience?  Maybe the gap is 
no worse than that encountered in trying to explain color to someone 
blind from birth?  Maybe bridging the 3rd/1st-person gap requires going
linguistically beyond straight description:  allusion, metaphor, poetry?

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Subject: Re: Dualism
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