[extropy-chat] effing

gts gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 3 01:40:58 UTC 2005


On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:56:00 -0500, Brent Allsop <allsop at extropy.org>  
wrote:

> Ultimately, we will be able to alter our brains so that whatever lands on
> our retina - we'll be able to represent it with whatever we want.  Right?

I suppose so.

Suppose we implant a device behind the retinas along the optic nerve, one  
that changes red signals to blue signals, and blue to red. Probably we  
would then see blue as red and red as blue.

Would this disprove Locke? Would it then be incorrect to state, as Locke  
might, that blue objects have a secondary quality called "blueness"?

It's not immediately clear to me that Locke would be proved wrong. We  
cannot blame the blue object for the fact that we now see it as the red.  
Blue objects are still blue, but we've screwed up our color vision.

-gts




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