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In article <1992Sep28.203519.133337@Cookie.secapl.com> frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) writes:
>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?

My answer to this is "Yes" if you replace "pain" with "red" above; I
think the answer is still "Yes" to the question as you have posed it,
but the exchange you propose, unlike the "blue" for "red" exchange, is
impossible to imagine.  Don't confuse the bare experience of "pain"
(of various kinds) with the automatic reactions to pain.
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