On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> This is indeed an excellent text (it is also in the book "Mind's I").
> Definitive? I doubt it. Dennett miss there the first person
> indeterminacy, although he get close ...
>
You're right of course, I should have used a different adjective,
especially since the point was to look at questions differently, not
to definitively answer them.
I think the essay shows the "problem word" in the question "Where am
I?" is not "Where" but "I".
It's easy to refer to a location, to answer the question "Where", but
much harder to refer to the "I" that is supposed to be there.
> Then I am not sure if this is really related with Quentin Anciaux's
> idea that he feels located in his head.
> The idea that we are in our head ... is in our head!
>
Another way of saying that, is that we have the urge to utter and
endorse sentences like "I feel located in my head" - but the
explanation of this urge is not necessarily "I am located in my head,
and I want to give an honest report of that". I'm not convinced that
there is a "1st person" fact of the matter whether "I" am in W or M.
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