On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:28 AM Lene Rachel Andersen - Nordic Bildung /
Fremvirke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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?
>

 For the answer, let me start with another question.



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?


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”.


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 direct awareness 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.


Color of glutamate:             white (it reflects white light)

Colorness of glutamate:      redness, which we are directly aware of.









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