[ExI] Optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 1:39 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Also, in many cases, they may have the experience that they are seeing
> red, but that may not be the reality.
> As the original optical illusion demonstrates.
> BillK
> If they report seeing red, then they are, regardless of what anyone else
> sees or whether it is an illusion and so on.  People's auditory
> hallucinations are real to them.  I had one once:  shortly after Mama's
> death I was in her house and heard her say 'Bill'.  Raised my hairs and I
> went into the room where I heard her voice.  Very real to me, though
> logically I realize that it was not her but some part of my brain which got
> triggered for some reason.




> For my part, if I never see 'redness' again in a post I will be
> delighted!  Can we get some closure on it?  Qualia will not be a scientific
> issue for some time - probably a long time. It is by definition a
> subjective experience.   bill w
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