Radical transparency experience

In Moores doctrine of radical transparency, experiences are thoroughly relational in a sense implying that a subjects experience is exhausted by what object it has. It is a corollary that a subject has no intrinsic properties whatever just in virtue of undergoing one rather than another kind of experience. 

I find confirmation of the hypothesis that Campbell is committed to radical transparency in later work promoting what he calls the relational view of experience. In the relational view, experience of an object is a simple relation holding between perceiver and object and the qualitative character of the experience is constituted [emphasis mine] by the qualitative character of the scene perceived.He characterizes the relational view further by saying ... 

Radical transparency is a thesis about perceptual experience, and perceptual experience is experience in which things appear to us to have various features. We might say, then, that Moore was giving us an account of what it is for X to appear F to S, and his answer is this x appears F to S if and only if (i) S is conscious of x (ii) x is F. In clause (i), we refer to what Moore calls the act in clause (ii), we characterize the object. What is distinctive about Moores account is that clause (i) is constant in all types of experience, any differences in how things appear (or what the experience is like) consisting only in what features are possessed by the object of the experience as characterized in clause (ii). ... 

To return, then, to the problematic consequence of radical transparency since the nature of experience is exhausted by a relation between subject and object, a change in the character of one s experience (say, from seeing red to seeing green) is merely a change in one s relations to objects, comparable to what happens to you when the red car next to you in a line of traffic is replaced by a green car. It is not in any way an intrinsic change. ... 

We have now reached a view quite at odds with radical transparency. Objects no longer play an essential role in contributing qualitative character to experiences. The experiences (or their subjects) are the way they are intrinsically, object or no object. The same experience may occur regardless of whether 1 am seeing an apple that is really there or hallucinating one, which implies (for better or worse) that the difference between veridical experience and hallucination must lie in factors extraneous to the experience itself such as causal relations of the experience to environmental objects. 

Harrison et al came to another conclusion [231,232]. They find radical cations, rt-diiners, and di-cations in their MIS device. In this device ITO was etched to form two 5 mm electrodes on the glass substrate. Onto this structure 100 nm 6T was evaporated under various conditions (see below). As insulator evaporated SiO was used. Finally, two semi-transparent gold strips were evaporated as gate electrodes. They form a right-angle with the ITO electrodes. In contrast to the above-mentioned experiment, four MIS diodes are formed in this way. With this device optical spectroscopy of the... 

Another useful method for investigations of water/C02 emulsions and microemulsions is electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, because no transparent samples are necessary [9,13]. Furthermore, data from EPR experiments can provide information about the polarity of the local environment of the EPR-active compound. The diagnostic unpaired electron(s) can be introduced either through stable free radicals or by using transition metal ions such as Mn. The active moieties may be incorporated directly in the surfactant [17,18] or added as a soluble probe molecule such as TEMPO (4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-Toxyl) [9]. 

For the radical externalist... there is no difference in the phenomenal character of shape experience in sight and in touch. The sameness of property perceived in sight and touch is transparent to the subject, and cross-modal transfer is a rational phenomenon.. 

The experiment is performed as follows (Fig. 13.1). The reaction mixture is placed in a thermostatted vessel 6 with transparent planar-parallel walls. The vessel is irradiated with the light with such a wavelength that generates radicals. Disk 4 is placed in the point where the beams are focused and is rotated. The reaction rate is measured by this or another method from experiment to experiment, and the empirical dependence of the v/v ratio on logrj is plotted, td is found from the rotation velocity of the disk and the ratio between the sizes of the dark and light sectors (usually r - 3). This empirical dependence is compared with the theoretical one, and 2k, is determined by comparison, and from this 2k, is calculated. The initiation rate is measured by the methods of inhibitors (see above) or through the chain reaction rate and the kp/2k, ratio. 

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