pain hurts/feels bad/is painful — RogueAI
If you were trying to explain what anger is to an alien, would you consider that a complete description? I think it fails because it doesn't capture the essence about anger, pain, happiness, etc.: emotions are feelings. They are things we experience. — RogueAI
That would seem to be a problem for physicalists. How on Earth can you convey to someone the experiential nature of pain and anger with just a physical description? — RogueAI
So if a mind can give a complete description of a photon, then the photon is independent of the mind. But if the mind cannot give a complete description of a photon, then a photon must be dependent on a mind. Something like this?A physical description of photons would suffice if physical stuff actually exists. If idealism is true, however, describing photons as physical things that exist independent of mind(s) would be false. A physical description of photons can only work if A) idealism isn't the case and B) they're not conscious. — RogueAI
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