thread: 2007-02-26 : Exorcism followthrough
On 2007-03-01, Ben Lehman wrote:
Matt—remind me again what we're not in agreement about? All I'm saying is that experience is not particularly a hard problem, I think.
There is no evidence one way or another that anything has a sense of self, because "self," like "God" is poorly defined for scientific purposes. From that perspective, I don't care whether a rock has an experience of self, I just care whether or not it has an experience of force (which it does—push a rock and it moves. Drop a rock and it falls.)
Outside of science, I'm vaguely animistic / theistic. Can you tell?
yrs—
—Ben
