<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Wow.  You guys are going to hate me for saying this, but you guys are all completely qualia blind.</div><div>Not only do you not know the physical color anything, you don't care.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:24 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, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:36 PM 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"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>You must be completely not understanding anything I've been talking about</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Bingo.</font></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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>how the word red isn't physically red. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">True, the word "red" isn't physically red and the chemical </font></font><font size="4">glutamate isn't physically red either, but both can be used as labels for the longer wavelengths in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. </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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>You think these two different representations of red things are in any way the same??????</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Both "red" and "</font></font><font size="4">glutamate"  are labels, they have nothing to do with light but can be arbitrary assigned to represent something that is related to light, just as the label on a jar of honey will tell you what's inside if you know the correct language even though the label is not sweet.</font></div><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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