“”Why didn’t you tell him the truth? Were you afraid?”
“I’m not afraid. I chose not to tell him, because I anticipated negative consequences if I did so.”
“What do you think ‘fear’ is, exactly?”″
The possibly amusing thing is that I read it as being someone who thought fear was shameful and was therefore lying, or possibly lying to themself about not feeling fear. I wasn’t expecting a discussion of p-zombies, though perhaps I should have been.
Does being strongly inhibited against knowing one’s own emotions make one more like a p-zombie?
As for social inhibitions against denying what other people say about their motives, it’s quite true that it can be socially corrosive to propose alternate motives for what people are doing, but I don’t think your proposal will make things much worse.
We’re already there. A lot of political discourse include assuming the worst about the other side’s motivations.
“”Why didn’t you tell him the truth? Were you afraid?”
“I’m not afraid. I chose not to tell him, because I anticipated negative consequences if I did so.”
“What do you think ‘fear’ is, exactly?”″
The possibly amusing thing is that I read it as being someone who thought fear was shameful and was therefore lying, or possibly lying to themself about not feeling fear. I wasn’t expecting a discussion of p-zombies, though perhaps I should have been.
Does being strongly inhibited against knowing one’s own emotions make one more like a p-zombie?
As for social inhibitions against denying what other people say about their motives, it’s quite true that it can be socially corrosive to propose alternate motives for what people are doing, but I don’t think your proposal will make things much worse.
We’re already there. A lot of political discourse include assuming the worst about the other side’s motivations.