Why would that be worth messing with the privacy of your mind for?
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On 31-10-2019 16:56, Brent Allsop wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:28 AM Lene Rachel Andersen - Nordic Bildung
> / Fremvirke <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Playing along and accepting that this device ends up in your head,
> how would you know that what you experience is in fact what the
> other person or the dog experiences?
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> For the answer, let me start with another question.
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> When you perceive a strawberry in your right field of vision, your
> physical knowledge of such, which has a redness quality, is in your
> left hemisphere. At the same time, if there is a leaf in your left
> field of vision, knowledge of that, which has a physical greenness
> quality exist in your right hemisphere. How would your left
> hemisphere know that what your other hemisphere is experiencing is in
> fact what the other hemisphere or the dog experiences?
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> Physical things can have both a color (the kind of light they reflect,
> which is only abstract, no qualitative meaning) and a coolness we can
> be directly aware of. Once experimentalists stop being qualia blind
> (using more than one word to represent different physical qualities)
> we’ll finally discover what colorness things in the brain have.If we
> objectively observe that another person is using the physical stuff
> which has your greenness quality to represent red things, we will be
> able to make objectively justified effing of the ineffable statements
> like: “My redness is like your greenness”.
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> Again, it 's not a hard mind body problem. It's just an
> approachable color problem. We just need to improve our sloppy
> epistemology of what color or what physical qualities something has.
> The falsifiable prediction is that the causal properties of redness,
> and the causal properties of glutamate are the same thing. In other
> words, glutamate and redness are abstract labels for the same physical
> thing. Once experimentalists start making this connect (that redness
> is our subjective directawareness of glutamate, as it reacts in a
> synapse) this will connect the subjective with the objective, making
> the introspective, objectively observable and shareable. Then we can
> finally objectively eff the ineffable nature of elemental physical
> qualities like redness and greenness.
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> Color of glutamate: white (it reflects white light)
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> Colorness of glutamate: redness, which we are directly aware of.
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