Illusionism thinks the illusion-of-phenomenal-consciousness is ‘perception-like’ — it’s more like seeing an optical illusion, and less like just having a stubborn hunch that won’t go away even though there’s no apparent perceptual basis for
If you say so, but it doesn’t make it any easier to believe!
Indeed, Dennett describes non-physicalism as being based on a “hunch”, as though it were just a nagging hard-to-pin-down belief and not something that feels palpably present in all experience
It’s not clear that it’s a hunch , and it’s not clear that it’s a palpable presence. Physics is a complicated subject that most people do not understand , so why would anyone have reliable hunches or introspections about non physicallity? And the phenomenology varies anyway...some people, but nobody here, have the intuition that thought is non physical.
And I have to wonder whether he has some aphantasia-like condition that made a view as weird as delusionism appealing.
Dennetts phenomenonology is a mystery. Maybe it’s like one of those early computer games that prints out “you see a fire breathing dragon”.
If you say so, but it doesn’t make it any easier to believe!
It’s not clear that it’s a hunch , and it’s not clear that it’s a palpable presence. Physics is a complicated subject that most people do not understand , so why would anyone have reliable hunches or introspections about non physicallity? And the phenomenology varies anyway...some people, but nobody here, have the intuition that thought is non physical.
Dennetts phenomenonology is a mystery. Maybe it’s like one of those early computer games that prints out “you see a fire breathing dragon”.