[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

[gts]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:58:35 -0500, Brent Allsop <allsop at extropy.org>  
wrote:

>> And you expect this to happen within ten years? I'll take that bet. :)
>
> Oh no, I never said all that will happen by 10 years.

But as you say, the proof is in the effing.

> I am only arguing that in 10 years we will have enough effing to say  
> that whenever a particular causally observed neural correlate occurs in  
> a brain the person will always say: "Yes, that is red."

This would not be evidence that the evoked experience of red is universal,  
or that true effing had taken place.

Seems to me you cannot honestly collect on the bet until your vision of a  
"grand unified phenomenal spirit world" comes true.

-gt