Single Idea 2582

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia]

Full Idea

NO physical mechanism seems very intuitively plausible as a seat of qualia, least of all a brain.

Gist of Idea

A brain looks no more likely than anything else to cause qualia

Source

Ned Block (Troubles with Functionalism [1978], p. 78)

Book Reference

'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.78


A Reaction

I'm not sure about "least of all", given the mind-boggling complexity of the brain's connections. Certainly, though, nothing in either folk physics or academic physics suggests that any physical object is likely to be aware of anything.