Wow, that’s a fascinating notion. But presumably if we didn’t have visual sensations, we’d be blind, assuming the rest of our brain worked the same, right?
If you lacked information about your environment, you would be functionally impaired. Information about your environment doesn’t have to be visual...it could be sonar or something. It doesn’t have to be sensory either...you could just somehow know that there is a door ahead of you ,and a turning to the left. Presumably , that’s how Dennett thinks it works. For everybody else, the difference between different ways-of-experiencing shows that ways-of-experiencing are more than just information.
I get the same feeling I get when someone tries to tell me what qualia are— it’s a peculiar collection of familiar words
“Time and space are the same, and they can bend and warp” is a peculiar combination of familiar words.
If you lacked information about your environment, you would be functionally impaired. Information about your environment doesn’t have to be visual...it could be sonar or something. It doesn’t have to be sensory either...you could just somehow know that there is a door ahead of you ,and a turning to the left. Presumably , that’s how Dennett thinks it works. For everybody else, the difference between different ways-of-experiencing shows that ways-of-experiencing are more than just information.
“Time and space are the same, and they can bend and warp” is a peculiar combination of familiar words.