Re: Dualism

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From: Joseph O'Rourke
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:51

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In article <Bv9AIx.HBz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.145109.20168@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:

RH:
>>Show me a point of difference between my conscious experiences and the
>>cor[r]elated physical events in my brain.

DC:
>Just about anything -- e.g. the blueness of my blue-experiences.

It would be useful to me if you could expand on this a bit.  For
certainly the experience of 475 nanometer electromagnetic radiation
has to feel like something to us (since we "feel" everything we
experience), and we happen to label this something blueness.  Are you
seeking an explanation of why blue light isn't experienced as,
say, pain?  For that I think we would have to turn to the evolutionary
development of the brain.

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