And the observation of brain shivers is the same thing - a poetical description of another's thoughts.No, "the subjective experience of thinking" is a poetical description of the thoughts, I say. — bongo fury
"Shivering" is itself a particular type of qualia. "Shivering" is a term that only an entity with visual experiences could use in the appropriate way.I propose "shivering qualia". This is a harder problem, because one cannot just quine the shivering away. Actually, I kind of like the term "shivering" now. — Marchesk
And the observation of brain shivers is the same thing - a poetical description of another's thoughts. — Harry Hindu
"Shivering" is a term that only an entity with visual experiences could use in the appropriate way. — Harry Hindu
What else could it be? Where does the observation of shivering brains reside? In what form does the knowledge that brains shiver take if not a visual of a shivering brain?Not necessarily — bongo fury
Using metaphors is part what it means to be poetic.Surely, anyone with sufficient flair for metaphor who had experienced shivering, e.g. with cold, could apply the term appropriately to sound events just as well as to illumination events? — bongo fury
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