<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I would also bet money that very soon they will NOT even be able to even prove that the experimental subject is subjectively experiencing the qualia red much less determine which law of physics produced it. </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> John K Clark </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am no physicist nor am up on any of the consciousness research and can't tell qualia from subjective experience. But - it would seem a simple thing to do brain scans while the subject is looking at red or whatever stimulus you want to trace in the brain to its ultimate destination, and thus get a picture of what happens in the subject's brain when those stimuli are present.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:25 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:07 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>My prediction is that very soon after experimentalists start doing observation of the physics in the brain in a non-qualia blind way, </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">The experimentalists would have no choice in the matter, they'd have to observe in a non-qualia blind way. The only way they'd know if they'd produced a subjective sensation of redness is to listen to the noises made by the subject's mouth, and that would be a very poor way to know things because there is no evidence qualia is required to produce noise.</font><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>> they will discover which of all their descriptions of physics are a description of redness. </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I would bet money no new fundamental physics will be required to explain how and when the brain sends signals to the muscles of the mouth that causes it to make a sound like "I am experiencing red". But I would also bet money that very soon they will NOT even be able to even prove that the experimental subject is subjectively experiencing the qualia red much less determine which law of physics produced it. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div></div></div>
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