Re: q***** [that is, "qualia"]

From: jeff nordahl (jnordahl@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 15 1999 - 17:38:12 MST


>
> > When I say "I'm hungry,"
> >
> > Why would you say "I'm hungry"?
>
><blink blink> What?
>
>Are you asking why I would claim to be hungry when you claim to be hungry?
>If so, I probably wouldn't, unless it was that time of day and I happened
>to be hungry as well.
>
>Why do you ask?
>
>-Dan
>

No silly rabbit, what would stimulate you to utter the words about your own
present condition? What would cause you to claim about yourself, "I am
hungry."? <wink wink> That's what I mean.

Why would you say, "I'm hungry"?

jeff
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