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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