A philosopher argues that we know little about our own inner lives.
Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure?
Before you recount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the
colors of the rainbow, consider that in the 1950s researchers found
that most people reported dreaming in black and white. In the
1960s, when most movies were in color and more people had color
television sets, the vast majority of reported dreams contained
color. The most likely explanation for this, according to the
philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to
black-and-white media made people misremember their dreams. It is
that we simply don't know whether or not we dream in color. In
Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various
aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other
subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our
stream of conscious experience. Drawing broadly from historical and
recent philosophy and psychology to examine such topics as visual
perspective, and the unreliability of introspection, Schwitzgebel
finds us singularly inept in our judgments about conscious
experience.
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