You should probably edit the post to mention your exchange with Mitchell Porter, and maybe say ‘one might think that’ when you start describing views you do not hold. I’d also like to second Tyrrell McAllister’s question, because your reductionist view of consciousness seems much less process-based than my own reductionist view of consciousness and I’d like to know where this difference comes from.
But I don’t think the OP deserves these downvotes. The quote from Quine does seem wrong in a way that calls for explanation. In fact, it seems worse than what Alfred ‘Kook’ Korzybski said in 1933. Korzybski located meaning in chiefly non-verbal reactions to symbols or events in general. Hence he might say that if you want to teach someone what “red” means, you should try to create a reaction linking the word with something non-verbal. But as you might guess from his influence on Hayakawa, he included neurological reactions and not just “overt behavior” or observed tendencies to the same.
You should probably edit the post to mention your exchange with Mitchell Porter, and maybe say ‘one might think that’ when you start describing views you do not hold. I’d also like to second Tyrrell McAllister’s question, because your reductionist view of consciousness seems much less process-based than my own reductionist view of consciousness and I’d like to know where this difference comes from.
But I don’t think the OP deserves these downvotes. The quote from Quine does seem wrong in a way that calls for explanation. In fact, it seems worse than what Alfred ‘Kook’ Korzybski said in 1933. Korzybski located meaning in chiefly non-verbal reactions to symbols or events in general. Hence he might say that if you want to teach someone what “red” means, you should try to create a reaction linking the word with something non-verbal. But as you might guess from his influence on Hayakawa, he included neurological reactions and not just “overt behavior” or observed tendencies to the same.