Re: Dualism

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From: Frank Adams
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:35

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In article <Bv9vGp.Ax3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>Precisely what needs to be explained is why that radiation "feels"
>like anything at all -- i.e. why that all physical processing is
>accompanied by an experiential feel -- so your parenthetical
>explanation here won't do.  There is also the secondary question
>of why it feels like *that* rather than like *this* -- it seems
>perfectly coherent that our blue experiences and red experiences
>could be systematically inverted, for instance.

Do you think how it feels has no behavioral consequences?  Would you behave
as you do if your blue experiences and your pain experiences were
systematically inverted?

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