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Ok then, let's rephrase to "an internal voice that you can feel, but it's not heard by your ears". It's not sensory. The phrase doesn't matter. What I want to
by alganet 3y ago
Ok then, let's rephrase to "an internal voice that you can feel, but it's not heard by your ears". It's not sensory.
The phrase doesn't matter. What I want to highlight, is that I can never describe my internal thoughts exactly. There's always a chance for misunderstanding (me not being able to put in words my thought process, or you not being able to translate my description to a meaningful experience to you).
If a better method for determining this appears (eg. scanning some brain areas), then I could be convinced. Otherwise, it's all anedoctal.
At this point of the discussion, it's time for p-zombies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
This thought experiment expresses well the problem of asserting someone else's consciousness experience. It can't be done yet.
- schrodinger 3y agoI don’t want to reject your experience because no one knows what anyone else experienced within their mind. But I know my experience is very much a conversation replete with proper grammar, inflection, etc to the point I could recite it out loud right after verbatim, so subjectively it’s very similar to hearing through my ears. Others experiences sounded more abstract so I wanted to share mine. But I suppose we may never really know :)