phil test Flashcards
the problem of qualitative content
fails to account for subjective experience
inverted spectrum scenario
2 people who describe an object with the same name but perceive it completely differently
Margaret Boden
- Searles intuitions are unreliable and his analogies are misleading
- ignorance
The systems reply
even if Searle doesn’t understand Chinese, the system as a whole does
Searles response to the system reply
if Searle internalizes the system he would still not understand Chinese and therefore neither would the system
the robot reply
give a computer program sensory inputs and behavioural outputs like a robot, then it would have understanding
Searle’s response to the robot reply
even if we still do this we don’t have understanding
the brain simulator reply
the program simulates the actual neuronal activity of the brain of a chinese speaker
searles response the the brain simulator reply
lacks the causal powers of the neurobiological brain
Fred the super colour sensor
no amount of physical information will allow us to know what Fred’s experiece is like when he sees the extra colour red
Mary the neuroscientist
knows all the physical facts about seeing colour
doesn’t know everything about colour
epiphenomenal qualia
the view that qualia do not causally influence the physical world
reason 1 for resisting epiphenomenal
the hurtfulness of pain seems like the obvious cause of subsequent pain behaviours
Jackson’s reply to reason 1
both hurtfulness of pain and behaviours may have an underlying common cause
reason 2 for resisting eq
it’s reasonable to assume that we evolved to have qualia. but if so then it should be conductive to our survival. bt if they are epiphenomenal then they are not.
