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Is There a Pink Elephant?
I think most people have a radical misunderstanding of how terms about perception and experience and sensation and feelings actually work. If, for example, I say I'm seeing a pink elephant, notice the words pink and elephant refer to things in the world. And that doesn't mean a pink elephant exists in some spooky thing inside my head, or it's just a mental thing. What it really tells you is I'm giving you a counterfactual. But if this hypothetical thing were out there in the world, that would explain this brain state. That plus normal perceptual causation would explain my brain state. In perception, it's the world causing a perceptual state with feelings. It's the internal state