[Serious Phil] What Do Physicalists Want?

[Peter D]

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> --- In Phil-Sci-Mind at yahoogroups.com, "Peter D" <Philscimind@> wrote:
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> > responding to message 2769
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> > PDJ:
> > Can't you categorise your dull, thobbing or sharp pains as pains?
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> Yes, I an do that with pains.  But I can't do that with the details  of
> color experience (presuming that there are details).

Can't you? Can't you categorise colours as murky, pastel and so on?

> That distinction is why talk of qualia is problematic, but talk of  pain
> isn't.

The feeling  of pain is uncontroversially a quale.