Eric Schwitzgebel

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New Books in Philosophy · Eric Schwitzgebel, “Perplexities of Consciousness” (MIT Press, 2011) · 15 Jun 2011 podcast

And the film media were black and white predominantly at the time.

And so people came to misattribute that feature of film media to their dreams.

So I guess I think it's like we don't really know very well what's going on in our dream experience.

But there are these things in the outside world that seem like natural comparison points.

And so we latch onto those to describe what our experience is.

But the risk of latching onto those is that we start to attribute to our experiences features that belong to those points of analogy, that is the film media, that don't actually belong to the target thing, the experience itself that you're trying to describe by means of the analogy.

So that's my inclination.

And we could see the same thing in China.

I did a follow-up study with Changbing Huang and Yifeng Zhou in China where we looked at low socioeconomic status rural Chinese in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, looked at intermediate status urban Chinese and high status urban Chinese

and they had very different rates of black and white versus color media exposure.

And the lower socioeconomic status Chinese who had high rates of black and white exposure and low rates of color exposure reported mostly black and white dreaming, and the high SES urban Chinese who had mostly color exposure reported high rates of color dreaming, and the intermediates group was in between.

So there was another kind of confirmation of this relationship between media exposure and self-report of dreaming coloration.

Right, so this is, yeah, in chapter two of my book, this is what I look at.

It's a similar kind of case where I think what's going on is over-analogizing to media.

So the kind of classic case that's been discussed by a lot of philosophers of perception is whether a penny viewed at an oblique angle looks elliptical.

Right, so just take a penny and look at it, not straight square on, but, you know, tilted.

And does it, in some sense, look elliptical?

Now, most people will say that there's a sense in which it still looks round, although some people will deny that.

A lot of people will say, well, in addition to it's in some sense looking round, there's also a sense in which it looks elliptical.

So among contemporary philosophers, both Michael Tai and Alvin Noy have said this kind of thing.

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