Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.61.3.3
The Understanding of Reports on Hallucinations
Dario Škarica
orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-2242
; Institut za filozofiju - Zagreb; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Abstract
In this paper, the following ideas and theses are elaborated: (1) hallucinations can be, and often are, scanned by the hallucinator, from which it follows that, although nonphysical by their nature, hallucinations nevertheless are objects being scanned (or at least being scannable). (2) Though privileged, the hallucinator’s access to his or her own hallucination is not neutral, but selective. (3) While being a competent ‘perceiver’ of his or her own hallucination, the hallucinator may in many respects be an incompetent reporter on its content. (4) What makes a report on a hallucination possible (despite the fact that the very hallucination is, by its nature, private) is the public nature of the categories under which it is subsumed within the report. (5) Reports on hallucinations may be directed or free. (6) The main object of free reports on hallucinations is to convey the situational meaning of the hallucination and the lived experience of it, rather than its phenomenal content. (7) It is primarily cognitive empathy (rather than imagination) that makes our understanding of free reports on hallucinations possible.
Keywords
reports on hallucinations; privacy of hallucinations; publicity of mind; nonphysical objects; privileged access; cognitive empathy.
Hrčak ID:
261307
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Publication date:
1.9.2021.
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