> This is a start but it fails to recognize that the experiments I pointed
> out with cortical
> blindness are not a matter of any social consensus but are more analogous
> to your
> biochemist studying ransubstantiation.
>
> Last time I checked suffering (the topic under discussion) was a state of
> mind, not a
> moral belief. Searching for evidence of states of mind (suffering, joy,
> etc.) is hardly a
> "pointless pedantic exercise". I'm very sorry to hear you feel this way
> about work in the > cognitive sciences.
Right. Unfortunately, Miles often seems to miss the distinction between the factual and the normative.
-- Luke