[ExI] Possible seat of consciousness found

Brent Allsop brent.allsop at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 22:15:55 UTC 2020


Hi Stathis,
So then does it help if I point out the fact that consciousness is red and
green qualia strate dependent (as opposed to saying sub strate dependent)?


On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:51 PM Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:36 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> I think you could simplify your language. “Red qualia” or “red
>> experience” is understood by most people and is unambiguous. It is also
>> understood that it is not the strawberry that has the red qualia, it is the
>> observer. Talking about red, redness, redness quality, redness knowledge
>> becomes confusing to keep track of. I would have to go back and check if
>> you mean that “redness quality” is something in the strawberry or in my
>> mind, and if “redness knowledge” is the same or different.
>>
>
> That makes a lot of sense.  Thanks for this information.
>
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