[ExI] Optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors

 

On Thu, May 20, 2021, 1:28 PM Ben via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:


The red quale (along with all other qualia) /has/ to be created by the brain, what else could it be? A quale can't exist all by itself, any more than a binary digit can.

 

>…I wasn't sure how to insert binary into this conversation,  so thanks for that :)

 

>…I can't even see 'red' the way colornormative folks do, so imagine instead a five-quale…

 

>…Anyway, if on-off-on (101) represents fiveness in binary counting, and is mapped to a corresponding 110101 encoding of 53 (dec)... is there something about sequences ending with 101 that suggests fiveness?  I feel like that's pretty absurd. I also feel like identifying 'redness' physical nature is similarly absurd, but don't have a better way to articulate it. 

 

 

 

Mike thanks, this is getting into the spirit of the thing.

 

There is an inherent objectiveness to fiveness that I just lose with redness.  It feels like home field advantage.

 

spike  

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