I have, on occasion, read really good books. As I read the descriptions of certain scenes, I imagined them occurring. I remember some of those scenes.
The scene, as I remembered it, is not a cause of my memory because the scene as I remember it did not occur. The memory was, rather, caused by a pattern of ink on paper. But I remember the scene, not the pattern of ink.
Well presumably the X here for you Is “my imagining a scene from the book” and that act of imagination was the cause of your memory. So I’m not sure it counts as a counter-example, though if you’d somehow forgotten it was a fictional scene, and became convinced it really happened, then it could be argued as a counter-example.
I said “Interesting” in response to Kaj, because I’d also started to think of scenarios based on mis-remembering or false memory syndrome, or even dream memories. I’m not sure these examples of false memory help the epiphenomenalist much...
I have, on occasion, read really good books. As I read the descriptions of certain scenes, I imagined them occurring. I remember some of those scenes.
The scene, as I remembered it, is not a cause of my memory because the scene as I remember it did not occur. The memory was, rather, caused by a pattern of ink on paper. But I remember the scene, not the pattern of ink.
Well presumably the X here for you Is “my imagining a scene from the book” and that act of imagination was the cause of your memory. So I’m not sure it counts as a counter-example, though if you’d somehow forgotten it was a fictional scene, and became convinced it really happened, then it could be argued as a counter-example.
I said “Interesting” in response to Kaj, because I’d also started to think of scenarios based on mis-remembering or false memory syndrome, or even dream memories. I’m not sure these examples of false memory help the epiphenomenalist much...