Lexicon of Arguments

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I 149
Space/time/consciousness: asymmetry: consciousness is in time but not in space (Kant, Searle).
I 81
Common sense is very far off when it comes to locating pain in physical space. But even such a blatant error does not show that there is no pain.
>Pain.
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II 335
Certainly our speech about mental states lacks a consolidated spatio-temporal localization, which is possible with body movements.
>Space-time.
But suppose we had a perfect science of the brain so that we could trace experiences like thirst back to a localized physical structure. But then the mental state would still be a global state because the corner of the brain is not thirsty in itself. Cf. >localization.

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