Reference and Consciousness by John Campbell

Author:John Campbell [Campbell, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 0199243816

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Straight off, if that is your condition, it would not at all be alleviated by giving you an electric shock, so that you can find out about the qualia associated with electricity. Similarly, suppose we consider the blindsighted subject, who is using something like the ordinary ways of finding out about whether a line is horizontal or vertical, and so on, and something like the ordinary ways of reaching for and grasping an object in his blind field. He does not know which object he is thinking about. Consciousness of the object is what would make the difference. But how could consciousness of the object be what mattered? On the 'qualia' picture, it does not seem that it could help at all. All consciousness provides, on this picture, is knowledge of, as it were, the kind of shock that the object can produce; it does not provide any grasp of which thing it is.

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