<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 12, 2022, 6:23 PM Brent Allsop 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>It is a necessary truth, that if you know something, that knowledge must be something.</div><div>And if you have knowledge that has a redness quality, there must be something in your brain that has that quality that is your conscious knowledge.</div><div>This is true if that stuff is some kind of "Material" or "electromagnetic field" "spiritual" or "functional" stuff, it remains a fact that your knowledge, composed of that, has a redness quality.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You know we can agree on a conversational level despite having exchanged zero informational content, right?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You seem to be accepting that my appreciation or understanding of ... well, anything... is antithetical to every premise you have thus far attempted to promote. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Stuffness comes from fundamental stuff"</div><div dir="auto">... is hardly a point of successful understanding. </div><div dir="auto"><br>You can walk a mile in my shoes, but all you can assert is how that feels on your feet. Maybe that's all you ever wanted. Maybe that's all you'll ever get. Idk.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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