Are you quite sure that the way we feel about ourselves isn’t the same as the way we talk about ourselves (except for the inhibition of actual vocalization)? How would one show that the stream of potentially vocalized self-reports isn’t consciousness? What would distinguish them?
I look around, and have visual experiences. These, it seems to me, are obviously different from any words I might say, or think but not say, about those experiences.
Good point! I might sketch a visual experience, but I don’t ordinarily consider my visual experience to be a sequence of sketches, analogous to an ongoing interior monologue...
I look around, and have visual experiences. These, it seems to me, are obviously different from any words I might say, or think but not say, about those experiences.
Good point! I might sketch a visual experience, but I don’t ordinarily consider my visual experience to be a sequence of sketches, analogous to an ongoing interior monologue...