How does subjectivity work?

[Mohammad Nur Syamsu]

Hello Moh,



I'm not sure that I catch your drift, but here is a tentative counter opinion...

Subjective experience is irreducible, but still depends upon a factual context. They are two sides to the same coin. Our 'choices' are made according to particular reasons. Whether or not they are good reasons is a different matter.

Can we really choose what it is that we find to be beautiful? Have you ever looked at a pile of dung and thought, "Okay, I'm just choosing to experience disgust"? Have you ever fallen in romantic love with someone and thought, "Okay, I'm just choosing to love this person and can stop at any time"?

It goes deeper than mere social convention. Freewill is an illusion. Our 'choices' depend upon a causal chain of previous mental states. The opposite of determinism is randomness, not freewill.

Actually, as I explained it, love is doing the choosing, if it is love, and one only chooses the word love.

So your criticism was besides the point.