Eric Schwitzgebel

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445 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2011 last heard Jun 2011

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Do you have a peripheral conscious experience, auditory experience of that hum?

Is that part of your stream of experience?

Is it part of what it's like to be you?

Is it an aspect of your phenomenology that somewhere in the periphery, maybe vaguely, is this of the fridge?

Or do you not experience that at all?

Is it not in any way part of your experience?

And really all you're experiencing is the stuff you're attending to.

Maybe your current thoughts,

the contents of the newspaper you're reading, right?

Likewise, you know, do you have constant tactile experience of your feet in your shoes, right?

Kind of in a peripheral way, or do you really only experience your feet in your shoes when you think about it, right?

And people have very different intuitions about this kind of case.

Another kind of case people have different intuitions about is the absent-minded driver case, right?

So you're driving to work, you've done it a thousand times along the same route, right?

This time you're driving, you're

You're not paying much attention.

You're just completely absorbed in remembering some unpleasant interaction you had with your department head, say, right?

And then you get to work and you're like, ah, I'm at work already, right?

You kind of almost like wake up, right?

Now, did you have visual experience of the road as you were driving?

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