Where I cannot follow you is your denial that this symbolic domain is experienced by us as " ineffable deeply personal qualit(ies)". They are deeply personal: each of has access to our own symbolic space, and no other. And they are certainly ineffable. Language is just not equipped to transmit them directly, it can only refer to them. Red would be incommunicable to a blind person, and so on. — hypericin
y "not really phenomenal qualities", you seem to mean that they are not qualities of the world. I think most here would agree, they are contrivances of our minds. But nonetheless they are phenomenal in the sense of phenomenalism, and in this sense they are real. They are the elementals of our inner lives. — hypericin
I believe that the clearest solution to that is to choose to believe that experience is an operational space - a kind of schematic domain, perhaps even a logical domain. It isn't telling us what the world is like, it's telling us how our operational affordances are organised. — Graeme M
It looks like you are unintentionally participating in the Cartesian Theater fallacy itself by positing this "space" and then referring back to its physical constituents. — schopenhauer1
Indeed, but then I did say earlier that there is still no genuine solution to the hard problem, if indeed it even is a problem. The trouble is we seem unable to express a way of looking at the problem without falling into the Cartesian Theatre by default. I do think though that the solution will be more in that kind of idea of a "virtual space", a space enabled by something akin to computationalism. It can't be some kind of representationalism, if by that we mean a genuine "image" of the world. — Graeme M
I don't understand the difference. — Marchesk
These are representations in us that contribute to our cognitive talents without being for us.(In this regard they are no different from the representations of blood sugar level or vitamin deficiency that modulate our digestive systems with-out engaging cerebral cortex at all.) — Dennett 2016:
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