<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Stuart,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:50 PM Stuart LaForge <<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com">avant@sollegro.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Quoting Brent Allsop:<br>
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> A few questions. I?m assuming that in your model, all this: "Strawberry -><br>
> Red light -> Eye ->" are identical in both cases.<br>
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Yes.<br>
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> But what do you mean by<br>
> this?<br>
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> ?red + your brain = redness. Glutamate exists<br>
> with or without brains, but redness does not.?<br>
> I?m assuming that both of these are *different* in your model in the non<br>
> inverted and inverted set: ?Brain -> Redness??<br>
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Yes, that particular expression would be different for somebody with <br>
inverted qualia such that red + their brain = greenness.<br>
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> You?ve indicated that the downstream, ?redness? does not exist without the<br>
> upstream ?brain??<br>
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Yes.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then you are talking about "magic", or ar saying " a miracle happens here. As I am talking about being causally (in any way physically detectable) from whatever it is that is this redness you experience.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> If there is one pixel on the surface of the strawberry that is switching<br>
> between red and green, what is the physical change in the physics of the ?<br>
> brain? in your model?<br>
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It should not change that much. In fact you might not even notice it <br>
unless you were really up close and looking for it. For example if you <br>
look closely at the flesh tones of human portraiture painted by <br>
classically trained artists, you can see small regions of reds, <br>
greens, blues, and other seemingly unrelated colors making up what <br>
appears to be a single homogeneous skin tone under various conditions <br>
of simulated light and shadow.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are avoiding the questions. I'm talking about a small patch on the strawberry just large enough for you to clearly see, and pay attention to, that is changing from red to green. What physics is changing?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> And is the difference between ?Redness? and ?<br>
> Greenness? physically or objectively detectable, without cheating by<br>
> observing anything upstream from your "Redness" and "Greenness"?<br>
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No, I don't think so. Your question is a little like asking if it is <br>
possible to crack a code without having any access to clear text or <br>
the cypher key. And the answer is: no, not in the life time of the <br>
universe for all but the most simple of cyphers.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So you are saying qualia are not approachable, nor observable via science, then?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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