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

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 15 1999 - 18:20:56 MST


'What is your name?' 'jeff nordahl.' 'Do you deny having written the
following?':

> 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"?

Ohhhh. Because I'm "hungry." (functionalist sense, not Hungry in the
Cartesian sense)

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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