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But it has difficulty in properly accounting for our knowledge of what it is like to undergo experiences of determinate hues while we are undergoing them.
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This reasoning motivates his disjunctive account of knowing what it is like: "S knows what it is like to undergo experience E iff either S now has indexical knowledge-that with respect to E obtained via current introspection or S has the Lewis abilities with respect to E" (Tye 2000).
Thus, in addition to understanding, subjects must be able 'to appreciate the nature and meaning of potential alternatives — what it would be like and "feel" like to be in possible future states and to undergo various experiences — and to integrate this appreciation into one's decision making' (Buchanan & Brock, 1989, 24).
The phenomenal character of an experience is what it is like subjectively to undergo the experience.
We investigated how the structure of synaptic contacts is modified when the synaptic connections between neurons undergo experience-dependent strengthening.
What it is like to undergo the experience is very different from what it is like for you to experience a dull brown color patch.
Given our inability to undergo similar experience, we can have at best partial understanding of the nature of such experience.
According to Nagel, an organism undergoes experiences with a subjective character "if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism something it is like for the organism" (Nagel 1974, 166).
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