Yes, I agree that this kind of atomism is silly, and by implication that things like Drescher’s gensym analogy are even sillier. Nonetheless, the black box needs a label if we want to do something besides point at it and grunt.
I’m saying that there wasn’t a box until someone felt the need to label something. The various phenomena which are being grouped together as qualia are not (or rather are not automatically) a natural kind.
Yes, I agree that this kind of atomism is silly, and by implication that things like Drescher’s gensym analogy are even sillier. Nonetheless, the black box needs a label if we want to do something besides point at it and grunt.
I’m saying that there wasn’t a box until someone felt the need to label something. The various phenomena which are being grouped together as qualia are not (or rather are not automatically) a natural kind.