Anti-Climacus

TO DAVID: That's because you're making the elemental mistake of confusing the physical facts with our phenomenological interpretation thereof. Assuming that it were possible to stimulate some portion of the brain to simulate the experience of tasting, say, an apple (which, I should add, science can't do, at least not now), there is no reason (or at least no obvious reason) to assume that will proivde us with the same experience as actually tasting an apple. I will grant you that there are reductionist theories of the mind that posit your belief in science will one day be justified, but most of them (Dan Dennett notwithstanding) recognize that the problem is more complicated than that, and that there's at least a phenomenological appearance that needs to be accounted for.