[Serious Phil] What KA really says

[Joseph Polanik]

Eray Ozkural wrote:

 >Joseph Polanik wrote:

 >>Eray Ozkural wrote:

 >>>what KA says is known to identity theorists all along: merely
 >>>speaking or thinking about some theory, will not result in any
 >>>arbitrary experience. that's because: the brain does not have a
 >>>universal experience generator that takes words as input and produces
 >>>experiential brain states that correspond to such states.

 >>I doubt you'll find anyone who disagrees with that.

 >>the KA assumes that all physical (scientific) knowledge can be
 >>expressed in words; and, that just having all that knowledge does not
 >>instantiate the experience.

 >>so Mary learns something when she first experiences red, does she not?

 >She doesn't learn a new scientific theory, but she has a new
 >experience, obviously.

agreed.

 >I'd say she does record a new observation, but not necessarily a new
 >theory

agreed

 >So, amazingly a theory of experience isn't the same thing as
 >experience.

agreed

 >Why is that even surprising?

it's not.

 >It seems to me that this is a linguistic confusion

it sounds like you believe that someone has been arguing that a theory
of experience is the same thing as experience. if so, who is that
someone?

Joe


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