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> Is there something inside the cats brain that is doing the observing? That would be the homunculus fallacy, the idea that an agent must have an agent within
by mannykannot 8y ago
> Is there something inside the cats brain that is doing the observing?
That would be the homunculus fallacy, the idea that an agent must have an agent within itself to account for its agency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument
- hackinthebochs 8y agoI don't think this is what he meant. Asking whether there is an observer in the cat is asking whether there is any mental life in the cat, i.e. whether there is anything it is like to be the cat. This is different from the homunculus fallacy that posits an inner observer to explain how mental representations of sensory information are consumed (e.g. the cartesian theater).