[Serious Phil] Brain/Experience Identity or Non-Identity

[Eray Ozkural]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:04 PM, andy_kappa <
Philscimind at undergroundwiki.org> wrote:

> In message 3898 Eray Ozkural asked PDJ:
> >
> > Then pray tell us, what should the scientific theory of experience tell
> you
> > about red? What sort of verification do you require? Tell me. And give
> me a
> > one good big laugh. :)
>
> The only way we can legitimately talk about "scientific theories of
> experience" is if we stipulate a variant use for the word "experience" that
> defines it as some kind of empirical phenomenon, and thereby misses the
> thrust of the philosophical issue that has been central for the last few
> decades.


Therefore you are too stupid to discuss this subject, I stopped reading
here.



> Experience (as this particular philosophical issue) is not an empirical
> phenomenon, so whatever theories might be proposed cannot be tested against
> empirical data. Consequently, short of re-defining the term to make it
> scientifically tractable, there's no such thing as a "scientific theory of
> experience" -- all theories of experience are metaphysical theories, not
> scientific theories. We begin by acknowledging a correlation and we
> instinctively pursue an explanatory account, but all such accounts boil
> down to fairytales. Identity theory is just another such fairytale.
>
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Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate.  Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
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