<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Brent Allsop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@gmail.com" target="_blank">brent.allsop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>> ​</div>​I see no way it could ever be proven or disproven that X causes qualia Y, at least not proven to be true in anyone except for me.</div><span style="font-size:large"> </span><div style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​And even then the proof would only be available to me.​</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Which you?  Your right or left hemisphere you? </div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​There is only one because my ​</div>corpus callosum<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ has not been severed.​</div></font><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>And if your right hemisphere knows, absolutely, that your left hemisphere's neural correlate of redness is not your left hemisphere's greenness neural correlate, why could we not simply predict that we will soon be doing the same thing between brains</div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​If there were a communication link between your brain and mine that was as good as the </div>corpus callosum<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ then there would only be one conscious being not two, but Brent Clark still wouldn't know what it felt like when John Clark or Brent Allsop looked at a red tomato. </div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark​</div></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>