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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