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Nagel
Conscious experiences
Subjective character
needed
Physical account
Impossible
Every subjective phenomenon is connected with a
single point of view
Beyond conceivability:
Deaf & blind from birth; bats; Martians
implies a belief
Objective facts
:check: have concepts to comprehend
of experiences
Need structural similarity to the observed
of physical phenomena
Accessible for individuals with differing perceptual systems
Accessible from many viewpoint
:red_cross: have concepts to represent
Finiteness of humanity
Structural differences (particular point of view)
There is something that it is like to be that organism
Bats
Not too far down the phylogenetic tree
Mammals
:red_cross:what would be like
for me
My experiences :red_cross: bat's experience
Even if gradually change - present state :red_cross: future stage
BUT sensory apparatus different (sonar)
Reductionism
:red_cross: captured
All reductive analyses are compatible with its absence
:red_cross: analysable in terms of
functional states
:arrow_right: could be ascribed to robots
:red_cross: analysable in terms of
causal role
:arrow_right: could be ascribed to robots
Psychophysical reduction
a move to greater objectivity from particular (species pecific) point of view
BUT
Subjective character is the
essence
of the internal world
At the present we are unequipped with sufficient concepts
E.g. rainbow for a Martian
comprehensible as
physical phenomena
not comprehensible as
human concept
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