Quining Qualia Audiobook Project - Intuition Pumps 5, 6 and 7 TheQuining Qualia Audiobook Project is a multimedia study aid and aesthetic exploration of Daniel C Dennett's classic philosophy of mind paper ''Quining Qualia''. Full permission for use has been given, and the original paper is available via Tufts University here: ase.tufts.edu Details of this particular video ---------------------------------------------------------------- Intuition Pump #5: The neurosurgical prank Intuition Pump #6: Alternative neurosurgery Intuition Pump #7: Chase and Sanborn This is the longest section of the piece so far completed. I took the perhaps provocative decision to lump these three pumps together for partly practical and partly ideological reasons. In the case of combining 5 and 6, it's just completely logical since 5 is very short, contains little or no independent content, and explicitly mentions 6. There are plenty of models for this joining of small sections in the arts (Kristin Hersh: ''Stained / Shake'' springs to my own mind, but there are joined movements in Symphonies and Concertos as well.) It seemed a good idea to me to extend this process further, linking to a third pump, the seventh about the coffee tasters. I'm doing it partly because it just makes structural sense, partly because by chance I ended up with nine minutes of bass guitar material, and partly because I want to make (even more) explicit the link between the Verificationist argument against the Inverted Spectrum thought experiment (old and new forms) and the dilemma ...
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