Any specific examples you can think of?
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Qualia.
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Care to elaborate?
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I personally find the term "qualia" unhelpful because it gets bogged down in a lot of definitional difficulties (David Chalmers avoids the term for similar reasons), but I have no sympathy whatsoever for Dennett-style eliminativism
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In fact, I have my own hypothesis that people who find functionalism and/or eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness plausible are likely suffering from some form of aphantasia or are unable to conceptualize experiences as distinct from their objects
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I don't think we would find a debate useful on this matter.
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Also I'm getting blasted by a migraine. I'm with Dennett, although I think his argument can be simplified. Sensing a red object is a specific neurophysical event; relating that sense to the reference complex of memories of other red sensings is a different event.
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Because they occur at almost the same instant, we confuse them. But the reference complex of red memories is analogous to an equivalence class containing the specific sensation. But, as noted, I have a migraine and don't want to argue this.
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everybody always gets annoyed if you drop Korzybski on them and everybody always needs it
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