Rob Harris, <rob@hbinternet.co.uk>, writes:
> The failure of certain people to acknowledge the above leads to propositions
> such as "Qualia does not exist". Well, my definition for entities that exist
> is those entities I can perceive through my senses either directly or
> indirectly. I know of no other definition. Given this, it is irrational to
> propose that qualia do not "exist", since we all directly perceive them.
It seems by this definition that you either don't perceive qualia, or
only perceive qualia and nothing else. You can't say that you perceive
flowers and that you perceive qualia, because one is the mechanism by
which you accomplish the other. Saying that you perceive both qualia
and flowers sounds like a misuse of "perceive".
Hal
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