<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 Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 1:11 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">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"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I wasn’t going to do this as it is still broken and not finished, but part of the a video we are creating on this topic showing how knowledge of color, or colorness, can be inverted from color is now </span><a href="https://canonizer.com/videos/consciousness/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">here</a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. </span></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Maybe it's because it's not finished but I don't see what the point was that the video was trying to convey. If your qualia of red and green are inverted (zero and one are inverted as symbols that stand for those 2 qualia) and if the inversion is consistent and includes memories of those qualia then I objectively can not notice any change in your behavior that resulted from the inversion, and you subjectively can not tell that anything has changed either. As a result I would humbly suggest that if objectively it makes no difference and subjectively it makes no difference then it would be safe to say it just makes no difference. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And of course if the inversion happened twice, as seems to be the case in the video, then no effective change of any sort has been made and you're right back where you started. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><br></div></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">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Again, once we have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ru9fw7szQw" style="color:blue" target="_blank">neural ponytails</a>, that computationally
bind like the corpus callosum,</i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I saw the movie too and I thought it was fun but as I explained in a previous post I don't see how that could help </font>Brent Allsop figure out what it's like for John Clark to experience the red qualia.</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>This will be as undeniable as “I think, therefor I am.” Direct experience cannot be mistaken/inverted like “perception” can.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If the inversion has not fooled objectivity and it has not fooled subjectivity either then direct experience has not been inverted at all, only the arbitrary symbolic convention that stands for them has. Suppose I could snap my fingers and make just one change to the entire world, the words "cat" and "dog" are now reversed, that means it's changed in every book in the world and in everybody's memory of ever having used those two words. Nobody would notice a thing after I snapped my fingers and the world would continue to chug along exactly as it always has. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">In fact I actually have that superpower and have just snapped my fingers. Did you notice any difference? I am Reverse Cat Dog Man, considering that I have such an awesome power and look great in tights I don't understand why The Avengers won't let me join.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>