2) was a little surprised by how positively and extensively @_awbery_ talks about TMI, given that their blog posts and other comments have sounded a little critical
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E: Well, I was being polite. Actually, you are just wired up to say you have experiences. And beliefs. You don’t actually believe you have experiences, or anything else. No one is home; you are a low-quality robot. A: [Punches him]
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So say we admit there is subjective experience and want to explain it. Generally experience is experience *of* something; it is “intentional” in the technical sense of *about* something. So how does it get its aboutness?
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From my reading of _Consciousness Explained_, it felt like Dennett was working towards an explanation towards what Chalmers calls "the meta-problem of consciousness" - explaining why humans think that there must be a hard problem of consciousness. ( http://consc.net/papers/metaproblem.pdf … )
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As you might guess, I'm sympathetic to Dennett, but I do think that he has failed to provide a convincing explanation for why, if there are no qualia, it sure seems like there would be (and what it would even mean for there to *seem* to be qualia without actually being).
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