Phenomenological investigation allows us to break something like consciousness down.
We for example think that perceiving the qualia of red and blue are each something that consciousness is about. We can add a third color base color via gene therapy and model ask people do describe how their conscious experience of colors changes.
Just because investigating it might need conceptual advances doesn’t mean that those can’t be made.
Phenomenological investigation allows us to break something like consciousness down.
We for example think that perceiving the qualia of red and blue are each something that consciousness is about. We can add a third color base color via gene therapy and model ask people do describe how their conscious experience of colors changes.
Just because investigating it might need conceptual advances doesn’t mean that those can’t be made.
Describing novel qualia is famous difficult.
Difficult is not the same thing as impossible. Doing advanced math is also difficult.
I was thinking of writing “difficult going on impossible” . No one can do it reliably at all, strictly speaking.
I don’t think that’s the case. I do think there are people who do get something out of phenomenological investigation.