 | Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Guven Guzeldere - Psychology - 1997 - 884 pages
...consciousness): "[Qualia] are an excressence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total...mystery how they fit into the world view of science Epiphenomenal qualia are totally irrelevant to survival" (p. 135)65 On the other hand, if consciousness... | |
 | Peter A. Morton - Philosophy - 1996 - 522 pages
...remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total...mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them." This is perfectly true; but is no... | |
 | Josefa Toribio, Andy Clark - Computers - 1998 - 326 pages
...are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to ioothe the intultlons of dualists, and it is left a total mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot onderstand the how and why of them." This is perfectly true; but is no... | |
 | David M. Rosenthal - Philosophy - 2000 - 336 pages
...remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total...mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them." This is perfectly true; but is no... | |
 | Neil Campbell - Philosophy - 2003 - 310 pages
...remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total...mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them." This is perfecdy true; but is no... | |
 | Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa, Daniel Stoljar - Philosophy - 2004 - 488 pages
...remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total...mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them." This is perfectly true; but is no... | |
 | Maureen Eckert - Philosophy - 2006 - 292 pages
...remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total...mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them." This is perfectly true; but it is... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - Philosophy - 2007 - 897 pages
...remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe and for it, until it has become, as it were, flesh...of his flesh and bone of his bone; and then he has In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them." This is perfectly true; but is no... | |
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All right, there is no knockdown refutation of the existence of epiphenomenal qualia. But the fact remains that they are an excrescence. They do nothing, they explain nothing, they serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total... 