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David Papineau: How Does Consciousness Connect Us To Reality?

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I'm Not Just Pointing Inside Myself

When i'm think about my pain, i attend to how it feels. And thatsa a richmotetyf understanding of what it is. I call them blind pointers, concepts just that point at things. If if our concepts of our experiences were like that, then physicalism totally coherent. That's why i say this is an example of philosophical progress,. cause that's a nice, clear issue, right? Keats and i, i take it think we are just pointing, and we oi we've pointed to som when we've got no idea what it isd, ad, and and, and. So we can forget about all the two dimensional stematics and just attend to

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