2010-08-10
Describing zombies
Peter -

Sorry for the slow reply.  I missed your post.

It's not so much that all that there is can be said, but that everything which can be subjected to philosophical scrutiny must be articulated.  I can't say 'I have a philosophical problem (or solution) which is inarticulable'.

What we can say, I think, is that we find it hard to articulate some things, and fail to articulate some others.  I don't know that this experience is so uncommon.

It seems to me that the problem of consciousness is, centrally, that we have unsharable - inarticulable - phenomenological states.  If we didn't, I don't think we'd have a feeling of 'me-ness'.

It's not just that I know things that you don't, and vice versa.  It's that my world is seen from over here, and yours from over there.