[extropy-chat] Consciousness is a process in multi-dimensional time! [Was: Qualia Bet]

[gts]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:12:57 -0500, The Avantguardian  
<avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to see the bridge between numbers and
>> colors. One way to do that is to objectify colors in the same way we do
>> platonic ideas like "five-ness".
>
> Well one could say that color was simply a certain
> number of vibrations in the electromagnetic field in a
> given unit of time. By this definition red would still
> be the same to a human and to an alien no matter what
> it looked like to the alien and five would still be
> five no matter what the alien called it as long as
> they were looking at the same color and counting
> vibrations.

Yes, but science has already accomplished that much. There is then the  
possible next step of objectifying the qualia of colors - what it is like  
to see them.

-gts