<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Brent Allsop </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@gmail.com" target="_blank">brent.allsop@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><div class="gmail_extra">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>If glutamate
was redness<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> [....]</div><p></p></div></div></blockquote><font size="4">Nobody is saying that glutamate, or any chemical for that matter, is redness because glutamate is a noun and the red quale is a adjective. However it could be that for some brains, if their atoms are organized in certain specific ways, <br>glutamate might be able to produce the redness quale; but I'll never be able to prove or disprove that hypothesis for any brain other than my own. </font><br><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"><div class="gmail_extra"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>if you changed glutamate,
with glycene in any one of those synapses, the entire system would be screaming:
“Wait, back up, that glycine isn’t anything like it’s neighboring redness glutamate,<p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">G</div>lutamate<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">glycine</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">have different objective chemical properties, so I just don't see how this line of reasoning will help in the understanding of subjectivity. If you exchange g</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>lutamate<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> with </div>glyc<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">i</div>ne <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">in some neurons but not in others then obviously those neurons will be treated differently by their neighboring neurons.</div><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div><div> </div><div><br></div></div></div></div>