Oh, Well, if that's how you understand qualia, we are blood brothers in this enterprise.
But I don't think that's how others on this list -- indeed, most other people -- understand qualia. Let's see what they say. Frank? Bruce? David? How do you understand qualia. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of u?l? ? Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 6:36 PM To: FriAM <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize? 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 ============================================================ 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
