[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet

[Acy Stapp]

As a probably off-topic side note, I recall that there is a 1000:1 variation
in ability to smell between different humans, and women have an uncanny
ability to detect extremely minute amounts of particular smells (such as
ammonia, perfume, etc) that men do not have. That's all I've got. All this
theorizing on consciousness has me in the mood of angels dancing on a pin.

On 11/23/05, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/23/05, Brent Allsop wrote:
> >
> > Why?  Has red ever changed during your life
> > time?  Has salty?  Have you ever confused red
> > (the A qualia) with green (the B qualia) or
> > salty?  Red is and always will be red – no
> > confusion whatsoever and we always know very
> > reliably that A is like A and not like B.
> >
> > Sure, taste is a bit more nebulous and fleeting
> > and obviously people taste things very
> > differently (represent the same chemical content
> > of food with different quale) – To me that simply
> > says we should focus on the plain, simple, and
> > constant ones, like color, first and an
> > understanding of the others will follow.
> >
>
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