Comment on Why can't I argue against claims of suffering?
valaramech@kbin.social 1 year agoThis misunderstands the premise. You cannot intuit someone's subjective experience of reality because it is impossible for you to experience their experience of reality. You have only what they're able to explain to you.
To come at this from the other direction, if a friend says to you "I'm having a good day" and does not appear obviously distressed, how could you judge the relative goodness of their day or if it was actually good at all?
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s a good point. But it does create a special class of information. Claims of suffering become axioms. Axioms are very powerful.