[ExI] Why stop at glutamate?

[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 9:03 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Hay Daniel,
> Welcome to the conversation.  Always fun to have a new guy join what we've
> been arguing over on this forum since the 90s. ;)
>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 5:53 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, Jason Resch via extropy-chat wrote:
>> >
>> > Communication is only possible where there exists common ground. We
>> have common ground in the quanta/numbers/measurements of the
>> > physical world, but we lack common ground between our own internal
>> states of mind.
>> >
>> > Which part is it that you disagree with:
>> > 1. That qualia are real
>> > 2. That qualia cannot be communicated
>> >
>>
>> Depending on the definition, I disagree with 2. I agree that we have
>> experiences as proven by brain scans when we're exposed to various
>> experiences. So if instead of qualia, we'd say experiences, I have no
>> quarrel with experiences or states in the brain being real.
>>
>
> So are you saying you can communicate what a redness property is like, to
> someone who has never experienced redness before, with only abstract text?
>
>
>
>> >       There are plenty of concepts that can be argued, are real, but
>> can never
>> >       be experienced by others or communicated, and I think this is
>> fertile
>> >       breeding ground for misconceptions and endless debates.
>> >
>> > Perhaps this accounts for the endless debates around consciousness over
>> the past few hundred years.
>>
>> I absolutely think that language is to blame here.
>>
>
> Yes, you must have language that uses more than one abstract word 'red' to
> represent different properties which can represent red.  Otherwise it is
> quality property blind.
>
>
>
>> >       I read a long post on your blog and I quite liked it. Maybe you
>> could
>> >       even expand on it by writing a book? =)
>> >
>> > I am. :-)
>>
>> Looking forward to it! =)
>>
>> >       Are you sure? I would say that the scientist wants to find the
>> truth and
>> >       increase his understanding, but the theist would want to
>> experience the
>> >       truth, but has no requirements when it comes to understanding and
>> the
>> >       way or methodology of finding it.
>>
>
> We want to discover 12 new phenomenal primary colorness properties no
> human has ever experienced before.  Then build a brain which uses all my
> current 3 primary colorness qualities, but also includes those additional
> 12.  Then increase the resolution of my conscious knowledge 100 times, each
> pixel possibly having all those colors.  I want the size of that high
> resolution bubble world to be not just a few kilometers, but more than 1000
> kilometers.
>
> Then I want to computationally blind that brain with my own, so not only
> can I experience my small, low resolution, 3 primary color knowledge of the
> world, at the same time as I experience the new large high resolution
> knowledge with far more color depth with each pixel.  I want to be able to
> have my knowledge of my spirit, have an out of body experience within this
> merged helf small low res, and half large high res world, and move across
> to the other brain.  (in a much more realistic way than portrayed in
> movies, where you go down a tube)
>
> In other words, I want to be phenomenally uploaded into an avatar with far
> higher resolution, higher color depth and a visual perception system brain.
> AND I want to know what it is like, in the old and new brain, all at the
> same time, in one computationally bound composite conscious experience.
>

That experiment giving monkeys an extra primary color should provide you
with some hope for this possibility:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/monkeys-get-full-color-vision

I believe there are shrimp that see with 16 different primary colors, and
some humans see with 4. In principle there are infinitely many possible
primary colors.

Jason

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