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Full Idea
If an orange visual image is a brain state then, by the indiscernibility of identicals, some brain state must also be orange.
Gist of Idea
If an orange image is a brain state, are some parts of the brain orange?
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p. 64)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.64
A Reaction
I think this is the Hardest of all Hard Questions: how can I experience orange if my neurons haven't turned orange? What on earth is orangeness? I don't believe it is a 'microproperty' of orange objects; it's in us.
| 4989 | Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel] |
| 3375 | If an orange image is a brain state, are some parts of the brain orange? [Kim] |
| 7876 | Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau] |
| 7877 | Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau] |
| 7878 | Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine] |