On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:58 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *(Isn't Hofstadter a joke?)* > Hofstadter wrote the single best book I ever read in my life, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". > > ” His [Dennett's] position was summarized in an interview in The New > York Times: “The elusive subjective conscious experience—the redness of > red, the painfulness of pain—that philosophers call qualia? Sheer illusion.” > I sure hope Dennett was misquoted, but if not I'm appalled he would say something so silly. One thing we know for certain about consciousness is that it's a subjective phenomenon; and so is an illusion. So all he's saying in the above is subjectivity is sheer subjectivity, and that is certainly true but it is also very silly. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1v84_yuMyazLa-Xnjf2j6HKPjxfqyDn5CdYHL71uLRDw%40mail.gmail.com.
