tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post8929569118035498459..comments2024-03-18T10:05:26.015-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: What Is It Like to Feel Sleepy?Eric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-7407961005702034562009-09-21T11:51:25.651-07:002009-09-21T11:51:25.651-07:00Thanks for reminding me of that, Kevin. I remembe...Thanks for reminding me of that, Kevin. I remember loving the beginning of Proust's Remembrance when I read it, many years ago. I'll go back and refresh myself!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-12419051828097807282009-09-21T11:07:49.599-07:002009-09-21T11:07:49.599-07:00Hi Eric, are you familiar with Proust's meande...Hi Eric, are you familiar with Proust's meandering description of sleepiness in the opening scene of In Search of Lost Time? I can think of no better phenomenological description of the experience of falling asleep in the literature. KKevinhttp://jkneilson.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-48464725410777333972009-09-10T02:54:05.000-07:002009-09-10T02:54:05.000-07:00Thank you for the new thought that you have introd...Thank you for the new thought that you have introduced me to. I don't know, but it is going to be fun thinking about it.Swatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173996390154408845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-56115081109505619352009-09-06T21:37:57.338-07:002009-09-06T21:37:57.338-07:00There is nothing it is like to feel sleepy, just a...There is nothing it is like to feel sleepy, just as there is never anything it is like to get sleepy; there is nothing it is like to V more generally (Hacker). Although there is always something it is like to be me while Ving at time t (and hence Hacker's dispute with all this 'what it is like' language fails). The question, then, is, what is it like to be S - trans-sensory unity and all that - when getting sleeping at time t? Shoot if I know. Although, I do know what it is like to be me right now getting sleepy - as far as this sort of knowledge goes - but the specificity of this occurrence makes it "its own unique sort of thing." Good thing words do not create category boxes but rather cue the right sort of specific yet different simulation in me when S says, "And then I got sleepy". No?Michael Metzlerhttp://www.poohsthink.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-27198305499017453102009-09-04T09:25:40.746-07:002009-09-04T09:25:40.746-07:00Depending on how one answers this question, the po...Depending on how one answers this question, the possibility of gradations of "sleepiness" might follow. Perhaps this will line-up with a gradation in the causal effects of sleepiness, on other aspects of one's experience. For instance, when one is beginning to feel somewhat sleepy, one's conscious thoughts start to become affected. When one is bordering on falling asleep, one's thoughts can feel somewhat hallucinatory.Rik Hinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175632741127133179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-81703093407440701352009-09-03T01:53:46.353-07:002009-09-03T01:53:46.353-07:00Feeling sleepy is probably a qualitative experienc...Feeling sleepy is probably a qualitative experience in its own right although an intermediate one. <br /><br />It´s a sensory experience because it produces distortions (hypnagogic hallucinations)of our phenomenology.<br /><br />But the point is what difficult seems to sharp the boundaries among experiences, particularly those transitional states (<i>in media res</i>)Anibal Monasterio Astobizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121020811080165520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-6360136594383784612009-09-02T18:57:44.738-07:002009-09-02T18:57:44.738-07:00Thanks, Justin. You're right that I didn'...Thanks, Justin. You're right that I didn't fully canvas the options -- especially blends like what you mention.<br /><br />What I find most interesting it that it's not at all obvious -- to me, at least!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-64209465204599113752009-09-01T21:34:22.437-07:002009-09-01T21:34:22.437-07:00I don't have an immediate feeling about the th...I don't have an immediate feeling about the thesis, but are you leaving out one option, that the 'feeling' of sleepiness is a cluster or pattern in one's other sensations and thoughts (if those have a distinct phenomenology)? Or perhaps we partially self-attribute sleepiness on the basis of yawning, slowness of thoughts, and so on, not phenomenology per se. We feel various things in our eyes, limbs, head, none of which are individually necessary or sufficient for "sleepiness".Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12979095957410011528noreply@blogger.com