I would considering adding the encoding of the memory of such a sensory
experience.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 6:40 PM James Lyons-Weiler <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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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