<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.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 7:59 PM Mike Dougherty 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="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 10, 2022, 9:12 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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="auto"><div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My question to you is: how do you know "red" is a certain kind of stuff, rather than an idea or abstraction?</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is a very good question.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'd also like to know how the millions of kinds of stuff necessary to represent the various stuffness of stuff actually fit inside the brain. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm also wondering how such things as the fourness of four explains 2+2, 2x2, 2^2 : is there a twoness of two, plusness of plus, etc that create an ensemble that would be indiscernible with fourness of four?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know, I know... words are hard.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><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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