Why would that be worth messing with the privacy of your mind for? / L On 31-10-2019 16:56, Brent Allsop wrote: > > > 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: > > 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 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. > > > Color of glutamate: white (it reflects white light) > > Colorness of glutamate: redness, which we are directly aware of. > > > > > > > > > > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > <mailto:mailto:[log in to unmask]> or > click the following link: > http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 > ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1