[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

[John K Clark]

"gts" <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>

> You've [Brent] been wrongly criticized for saying these properties are 
> non-causal.  What you really mean is that direct knowledge of phenomenal 
> properties  (the actual first-hand experience of qualia) cannot be 
> obtained via  abstract science about causes and effects.

And I've been wrongly criticized for saying that is a duck  when what 
I really said it is a Aythya Americana of the genus Aythya and the order 
Anseriformes and the class Aves and the phylum Chordata and the kingdom: 
Animalia.

Big words don't necessarily produce big ideas. 

   John K Clark