We can define redness as reflection or emission of light with wavelength
around 700 nm.h

My description is of an encoding of the word/thought symbol for the sensory
experience of reflection or emission of light with wavelength around 700
nm.  I wouldaddhh

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 6:31 PM Brent Allsop <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:13 PM James Lyons-Weiler <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> By "representation of" I mean "neurological encoding of", i.e., a
>> physical representation of an abstract concept for a real-world thing.
>>
>
> Right, but when you say it like this, there is nothing that defines
> redness?  You do not do “neurological encoding of” redness.  Redness is an
> intrinsic quality you can represent information with.  For example, our
> description of how glutamate behaves in a synapse, could be a description
> of your intrinsic redness, and our description of how glycine behaves in a
> synapse could be the description of your intrinsic greenness.  You could
> represent ‘red’ things with either your redness(glutamate) or my redness
> (glycine).  You must specify a specific intrinsic quality, if you are to
> know what one means by redness, you cannot just make an abstract statement
> like: “represented by neurotically encoding”
>
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