[extropy-chat] effing

[gts]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:54:26 -0500, Brent Allsop <allsop at extropy.org>  
wrote:

> I bet there is a whole universe full of phenomenal qualities no humanhas  
> yet experienced.  Surely there is much more than what it is likejust to  
> be a bat!

What about "what it is like" to be an insect?

Or what about a bacterium?

In your view does the question still make sense?

In trying to understand the possibility of so called "effing technology" I  
find myself wondering more about what you call "phenomenal qualities". Is  
the red quale a phenomenal property of red light (in which case it is  
universal)? Or is it a property of the neural correlates of seeing red (in  
which case it may be different for each person)?

-gts