Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!blenko-tom From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Chalmers on Searle Keywords: Other minds Message-ID: <25770@cs.yale.edu> Date: 8 Aug 90 17:56:05 GMT References: <53619@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <25761@cs.yale.edu> <6022@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/rn/organization Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: morphism.systemsz.cs.yale.edu Originator: blenko@morphism.CS.Yale.Edu In article <6022@milton.u.washington.edu> forbis@milton.u.washington.edu (Gary Forbis) writes: |... Each human is different |from the next and we cannot know the basis for our "introspective experience" |does not lie somewhere within this difference. How are we to determine |capability for "introspective experience" if not through behavior? How does one determine whether a city has civic pride (or to what degree it might be said to have civic pride)? Yet one can rank-order the cities one has lived in according to the civic pride one feels they possess. And one can arrive at such judgements without participating in the life of the city. Tom