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Abstract:
D. H. Lawrence, the novelist, once remarked that if anyone
presumes to ask why the midday sky is blue rather than red, we
should not even attempt to give a scientific answer but should
simply reply: "Because it is." And if anyone were to go still
further, and to ask why his own conscious sensation when he looks
at the midday sky is characterized by blue qualia rather than red
qualia, I've no doubt that Lawrence, if he were still
around-along with several contemporary philosophers of mind-would
be just as adamant that the last place we should look for
enlightenment is science.
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