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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Ooooh...Dr ZenGum. What was your subject for your phd?
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It was in philosophy,
not the European post-modernist type but the Anglo-American proto-science type.
I was looking at the relationship between the scientific third-person description of the events inside human heads (including physics, chemistry, psychology, cognitive science, etc) and the subjective, first-person conscious experience of those events (ooohhh, BLUE!).
Roughly, the concepts we use to describe the events in scientific terms, and the concepts we use to recognize those events by means of conscious introspection, refer to the same things, but do so by different means and are conceptually independent of each other.