<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">You might be overlooking the number of neurons involved, creating different levels of stimulation and experience. Responses get stronger if adrenaline is involved, but I don't know how that works on neurons.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:03 AM Ben Zaiboc 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">On 25/03/2023 13:20, Brent Allsop wrote:<br>
> Can we just instead focus on what is a physical "quality"?<br>
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I don't even know what that might mean, when applied to non-physical <br>
things, like experiences. How can a non-physical thing have a physical <br>
anything?<br>
<br>
One of the interesting things about neuron spikes is that they are all <br>
the same. No quantitative or qualitative difference between one spike <br>
that's part of a train of spikes contributing to someone's experience of <br>
a C minor chord, and another one that's involved in regulating heart rate.<br>
<br>
Seeing as it's neuron spikes that build up into all our experiences, I'd <br>
say that 'physical quality' of anything mental, is a meaningless phrase.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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