Eric Schwitzgebel
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first heard Jun 2011
last heard Jun 2011
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So there's a difference in the content of the perception in some sense.
What you're looking at is different.
But if you don't know anything about that difference, the phenomenology in the two cases might be the same.
So that would be one kind of case where the phenomenology and the content of a visual experience might come apart.
And my focus really is on the phenomenology, the felt, what it's likeness.
we think of as the stream of experience.
Yeah.
Well, one of the things that when, when I started thinking about whether adults really are so much better than children at this kind of thing, and I think we are better, um,
was my memory from when I was growing up in the 70s.
People used to ask, oh, do you dream in color or black and white?
And it was thought to be kind of an interesting question.
And people don't ask that anymore.
And so I was just curious whether there was a big difference in how people thought of coloration in their dreams in between now and the middle of the 20th century.
And so I went and looked at
popular magazines and literature in psychology and in philosophy on the coloration of dreaming.
And what I found was that in the 50s and the 40s in the United States, the majority of Americans said they dreamed exclusively or almost exclusively in black and white.
And now people don't say that
Or a small minority say that.
Almost everyone says or assumes that we dream in color now.
In fact, I took a questionnaire from 1942 that had a set of results that almost everybody said that they dreamed at most occasionally
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