<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Hi Sherry,</div><div>Thanks for the answer.</div><div>I define "perceive color" to be a long chain of abstracting causal events. The final result is a conscious experience composed of colorness qualities.</div><div>We don't "perceive" these qualities, they are just qualities of which our conscious knowledge of what we see is composed.</div><div>So, even if there was no "physical world" out there and it was all just an abstract matrix simulation, feeding information to your brain, effectively lying to you, making you only "THINK" you were perceiving something more than 1s and 0s, you could still know, absolutely that you were experiencing colorness qualities, the final result of the 1s and 0s being feed to your neurons.</div><div><img src="cid:ii_lgb25b2s0" alt="matrix_vats.jpg" width="562" height="296"></div><div>Qualities are in the brains, in all those vats, in physical reality. All there are in the matrix are 1s and 0s, which are explicitly designed to be abstracted away from any physical properties representing them, via a dictionary.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 11:49 PM Sherry Knepper 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">I hope if the time unfortunately comes where we have consciousness without anything left that is physical, we can still perceive colors but I don't think that's the question.<br><br><div id="m_6237857903224845719ymail_android_signature"><a id="m_6237857903224845719ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 20px"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(109,0,246)"> <div>On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 9:41 PM, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat</div><div><<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0px 0px 20px;margin:10px 0px 0px;border-left:1px solid rgb(109,0,246)"> <div id="m_6237857903224845719yiv3296855156"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I'd like to take a survey, and find out if anyone does or does not agree with this statement:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Consciousness is composed of qualities like redness, greenness, and warmth.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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