“I do think that if you are trying to think empirically about the relationship between conscious experience and the underlying physical reality, wine provides an excellent practical example. Winemakers manipulate the chemicals they are dealing with in a way that is very sensitive to the kinds of effects it will have on the subjective experience of tasters - this is not an accident.” ThinkingTryingKindRealityConsciousWineExcellentSensitiveManipulate Author:Tim Crane
“We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are underpinned by very different neural mechanisms; so how can the neural correlate of their conscious natures be the same? I don't think we are yet in a position to make such speculations. To make progress, we have to have a good conception of the phenomenology of consciousness, among other things.” ThinkingDifferentUnderstandingConsciousnessProgressConsciousVariousSpeculation Author:Tim Crane
“The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.” ThinkingRealProblemRiskConsciousImportancePhilosopherExplanationI Have LearnedPointless Author:Tim Crane
