PHL240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Multiple Realizability, Afterimage
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Objection to identity (4th objection): greenish after-image not identical to any brain state: problem with this objection: greenish after-image is the object of experience. Smart"s theory is about the act of experience. The act of experience, the experience itself is not greenish". The original objection makes the mistake of making a subject change from experience and object of experience. Continuation of 4th objection: what about experiences don"t have clear act object distinction like pain. If smart can"t show pain can"t admit clean act object experience, then he has problem. Smart: my current pain is sharp and throbbing. There isn"t clear distinction between act object distinction: response: maybe that distinction exists but it"s a lot tougher to see, pain experience has an object: a hurtful thing (damage in the body). You can take a perspective on act of pain similar to the way you can see perspective of act of perception.
