Posted: Sep 14, 2018 7:20 pm
Macdoc wrote:Consciosness in Graziano's view is something we know with certainty. It means we all have a subjective self having experiences, an inner life we can refer to.
and importantly compare experiences ....so that the person who sees colours differently knows what he is missing and that others share that difficulty that would be the real world there Jamest....testable.
They might know that there is something missing, but it isn't communicable. There would be a "what it's like" but it would be an aspect of a private model that is inaccessible to anyone else and only meaningful in the context that brain, that model.