But, really, all you're doing is dickering about the definition. It doesn't make me grumpy at all. In fact, I can agree wholeheartedly with you and still believe in qualia, because what you describe *is* what the word means: self-perception. No amount of sophist-icated, hermeneutics will make it useful, here.
But what's physical and for which falsifiable hypotheses can be formulated is *how* plants sense and react versus how animals sense and react. So, again, if we can talk about *that*, then we might make progress to whether or not non-human animals psychologize. On 09/17/2018 03:09 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Gee. I guess I don’t believe in qualia. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
