[ExI] What is "Elemental Redness"?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 02/05/2023 18:27, Jason Resch wrote:
> The hard problem of consciousness comes about by assuming a particular 
> answer to the mind-body problem.
>
> The mind-body problem asks: what is the nature of the connection 
> between mind and matter.
>
> If you assume matter is fundamental (materialism) then you end up with 
> "the hard problem of consciousness" -- how to explain the appearance 
> of consciousness given only matter.
>
> On the other hand:
>
> If you assume consciousness is fundamental (materialism) then you end 
> up with "the hard problem of matter" -- how to explain the appearance 
> of matter given only consciousness.

Nonsense. (in my opinion).

There isn't one fundamental thing, there are three. There are only three 
things that make up the world and they are all subject to the laws of 
physics, all understandable and all predictable (or at least computable):

Space/Time
Matter/Energy
Information

Absolutely everything falls under some combination of these three things 
(and some people do reckon they can be collapsed into one thing, but I 
don't really know anything about that. It probably involves lots of very 
difficult maths, and is probably irrelevant to the world we inhabit).

Even gods ghosts and goblins fall under these things, because they are 
the imagined products of (some rather deranged) human minds.

I mean if you really wanted to, I suppose you could call this 
'tripleism'. But I don't think it would catch on. But still, they are 
the raw ingredients of reality. The recipes you can create from them are 
infinite, but everything is made up of them, and there is nothing else 
(as far as we know).

That's what I call materialism.

Ben