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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  But since your little finger is mindstuff, just like your mind, how can the sensation appear to come from something that is actually no-where? And assuming we buy into some mechanism for locating no-where in space and time, why that particular place and not out in that tree outside my window?
~~ Paul |
Our visual experiences of the external world (perceptual qualia) are arranged in patterns. What I see as a blue object may lie to the right of what I see as a red object. Same goes for tactile qualia. So objects obviously have locations.
But the self? we can't see selves, we can't hear selves, we can't smell selves, or taste selves, or feel selves. Therefore unlike our perceptual qualia it has no location.
However, in the case of pain, it seems similar to tactile qualia. Thus if tactile qualia have a location so then might pain qualia.
We experience pains in our own bodies rather than a tree outside, or someone else's body, because I guess the pain is a warning that ones body has become damaged.
I really don't know where you're going with this . . .