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  • "this would be a matter of rescuing something from that dismal mentalistic realm and giving it some RESPECTABILITY". Hmmmmmmm..........

  • Quine looks like he is tied to the chair so they can interrogate him...

  • W.V. Quine seems (seemed?) like a very open minded, intelligent guy. You can see he's happy that someone pointed out something he hasn't thought of.

  • You're thinking of his reaction to Block's point in the first minute about correlating the same neural states to the different stimuli. But Quine is pleased because that is a blunder on Block's part--if different stimuli yield identical neural states, and that's what we call "inverted spectrum," then we do have objective empirical criteria for subjective experiences, and the puzzle about inherently introspective phenomena (qualia, etc) dissolves. This is not to suggest he's not open-minded.

  • Ah, Mary! I love that argument, it was one of the first with which I had to deal with as a student of the philosophy of mind. :P

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