Accepting the Evidence of Experience
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Accepting the Evidence of Experience
[Jud]: … the idea of the supposition of *experience* rather than
*think* does more to blow the ridiculous pantomime of the cogito out of
the water. Viva la Experience! Away with the age of Cant!
[Joe]: recognizing ‘cogito; ergo, sum’ should be translated as ‘I
experience; therefore, I am’ is like turning a kaleidescope just a
little. a lot of change happens. for one thing, it becomes clear that
Descartes was often talking about qualia; for example, the taste of
honey in the wax, its scent and color.
[Jud]: You mean what it becomes clear is what Descartes thought he was
often talking about by what we moderns call qualia; for example, the
honey tasting, scent-smelling, colour detecting human in the wax. … We
are discussing what modern men, like you and I should be satisfied in
accepting. … Also I do not accept that *qualia* exist other than as
existential modes of believers in ‘qualia’.
[Joe (new)]: I am satisfied to accept the evidence of experience: I
refer to qualia; specifically, to the patch of color I experience seeing
as an afterimage.
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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