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Lee Corbin wrote:
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Anyway, I'm willing to bet anyone that this theory [of qualia] will be
commonly accepted as fact in 10 or so years...
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Weren't you saying that seven years ago? :-)
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Yes, but back then I was saying about 20 or so years from then. We've
made much progress since then so I feel a little more confident
reducing the time I think it will take. We are now stimulating the
visual cortex of blind people and producing spots of phenomenal light
people are consciously aware of, and stimulating the auditory areas of
the brain in a way that can make them consciously aware of sound
qualia. This is almost precisely the kind of effing I have always been
talking about. As in they stimulate the properly configured brain in a
particular way, saying this is what salt tastes like, and the person
that has never known what salt tastes like will finally say something
like: "Oh That is what salt tastes like." With only a little more
progress along these lines such theories will finally be proved or
disproved very soon now don't you think?<br>
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<pre wrap="">No one hopes more than I do that you Mormons were exactly
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Be careful about classifying me with "you Mormons" since I believe many
things very different than most "Mormons" such as I believe our spirits
do not rise from our bodies when we die to be greeted by the spirits of
our already dead ancestors and or Brigham Young. I believe Joseph
Smith was a liar (but still did some good). There is no God yet, nor
was some Sacrifice by some dude named Jesus significant the way they
claim. People will not be split up and isolated into "3 degrees of
glory" in heaven and I believe other worship and wallow in misery
things like that are not true. But other than a few things like that,
they have lots of good beliefs and a great culture which I do share -
especially the one where they believe man can become God.<br>
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Brent Allsop<br>
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