| Arcade Fire – Reflektor Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"We often know directly that we are in a certain mental state. Typical cases would be where we are in serious pain, are itching, are smelling a rose, seeing a sunflower, are depressed, believe that today is Tuesday, and so forth. We do not always know directly that we are in the mental state we are in but what is striking is that we never have direct knowledge that other human beings are in whatever mental state they are in. It is this stark asymmetry that generates the epistemological problem of other minds. The asymmetry is a matter of what is known directly and not known directly, and the specific kind of knowledge. It is not a matter of what can be observed, perceived, felt, as opposed to what cannot be observed, perceived, felt. Were I able to observe the mental states of another human being that would not mean that I did not have a problem of other minds. I would still lack what I needed. What I need is the capacity to observe those mental states as mental states belonging to that other human being. They would have to be experienced by me as someone else's mental state. My experience of the other would have to come accompanied by that guarantee, attached as it were to an epistemological label. The situation would only then be as it is in my own case. I would only then be in possession of the direct knowledge that I and all of us forever lack." (SEP "Other Minds") Can put a damper on a relationship, I guess... |
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| The Cinema – My Blood Is Full Of Airplanes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's about someone stuck in a bad relationship they don't want to be in because of choices they made before they realized what they really wanted. Now they love someone else, but they can't be with them, and all they want to do is escape and it's painful. They know what they have with this person won't last long, but they're fantasizing about flying away from everything shitty in their life with them. | |
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