On the thick view, the what-it-is-likeness of perceiving an image of Marilyn Monroe includes one's recognition of her history as part of the felt aspect of the experience, and beliefs and thoughts as well can and typically do have a distinctive nonsensory phenomenology.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's "a likeness of a person", which sounds straightforward, but isn't.
In addition, it's MedAlert likeness would be worth mega points in getting me to the front of the line for the Waterfall Canyon slide.
Two-and-a-half decades after my first breakdown, when I curated the event What There Is Instead of Rainbows, I wanted to capture that lack of false promise, that focus solely on the moment, asking a selection of authors to write about the what-it-was-likeness of their darkest moment.
Only creatures capable of having or undergoing similar such experiences can understand their what-it's-likeness in the requisite empathetic sense.
According to the HO theorist, what-it's-likeness enters only when we become aware of that first-order state and its qualitative properties by having an appropriate meta-state directed at it.
According to such theorists, there is no distinctive "what-it-is-likeness" involved in believing that Paris is the capital of France or that 17 is a prime number (Tye, Prinz 2012).
It's someone's face, likeness, voice, image, name, and their tattoos!
A 1907 Picasso looks more like a Rembrandt portrait than like an African mask its concern is likeness and the individual, not the spirit and the ritual.
Watching, I thought about Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play Six Characters in Search of an Author, and John Berger and artist Juan Muñoz's 1996 radio play Will It Be a Likeness (later filmed in live performance), both concerned with the artifice of theatre, and the illusion of reality.
