There's a difference between language of experience and language of explanation.

Churchland also accepts that there is such thing as a “first-person account” of (my own two words) inner processes. And he even uses the word “introspection”. It’s just that Churchland also believes that these processes should be described in the language of neuroscience or cognitive neurobiology, not in the language of folk psychology. In these cases at least, then, we don’t really seem to have any eliminations at all. Perhaps that’s…
Eliminative Materialism: Paul and Patricia Churchlands’ Strong Neuronal Activations For Each Other
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Paul Austin Murphy
Jim Mason
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Nov 11, 2021
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There's a difference between language of experience and language of explanation. The clearest example I know is that we describe our experiences of "sunrise" and "sunset" as movments of the sun, but we explain them as rotations of the earth. Our descriptions of our minds are similar: Churchland's writing about mind is explanatory; most people's talking or writing about mind is experiential.
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