Thank you, this is good dear Judy.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, authfriend <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > <anartaxius@...> wrote: > (snip) > > > Now if we suppose this is what happens, and the 'rich inner > > life' of experience goes by the wayside, what does this mean > > in terms of the hard problem? > > Nothing, because it doesn't "go by the wayside"--it can't, > or you'd be a zombie. Your "rich inner life" may well > become *poverty-stricken*, but it doesn't disappear. So > the "hard problem" doesn't go away either. > > (snip) > > If I understand [Dennett's] view, then it is impossible to > > > discover there is such a thing as consciousness objectively. > > Subjectively, it is an illusion created by the mind's > > interpretation of experience. > > For there to be an illusion, there has to be something > being deceived by it, so you can't dispense with > consciousness (or the hard problem) that way either. > > >
