<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi Bill,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for all your interesting work on this reply.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM BillK 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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 at 23:17, Brent Allsop 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="ltr"><div>In a conversation with ChatGPT about qualia, I said:</div><div></div><div>"<span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Something in the brain must be behaving
the way it does, because of its redness quality.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">It seems to me the hard problem of
consciousness is just a quality problem.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We simply need to match up which description of something in our brain
is a description of redness</span>"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To which ChatGPT replied:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Yes — that’s a profound and
elegant way of reframing the hard problem: as a <b>quality identification
problem</b>, rather than an unsolvable mystery.</p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></div></div></div></blockquote><div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><snip></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><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🧠</span> Summary</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">You’re absolutely right:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">The hard problem may ultimately be
a <b>“which-is-it?” problem</b>, not a “how-is-it-possible?” problem.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Instead of asking:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i>“How can the brain produce qualia?”</i></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">We should ask:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i>“Which brain state is red?”</i></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i>“Which part of the brain has the intrinsic
property that feels like red?”</i></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Once we identify that, we haven't
eliminated the mystery of experience — but we've <b>localized it</b>, and made
it <b>scientifically investigable</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> _______________________________________________</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi Brent - </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">AI chatbots are designed to be agreeable and friendly to humans.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This can lead to problems - Search for "AI Psychosis". </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">If you want a critical opinion from AI, then you have to specifically ask for that.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro to critique your proposal and list the problems.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Interesting response, see below -</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I am very aware of all this. As I indicated, this was simply the response to one question in many long conversations I often have with various AIs on this topic. Most of my conversations do exactly what you are describing, diving deep into issues and counter and critical points of view, as I very much want to better understand other points of view. So I very much appreciate your help with this response.</div><div><br></div><div>Another issue is as with all LLMs, you can tell this is all summaries of what is being published out there on this issue. Most of it is completely mistaken and just wrong. Of course most people are going to argue that redness is a quality of the strawberry, not a quality of our knowledge of the strawberry, because most people are just plain wrong.
The entire goal of creating Canonizer, was to overcome this problem.
Canonizer, though it has very little usage, does seem to filter out much of that kind of junk. People are more reticent to 'canonize' their theories (i.e. integrate them with other POVs) if they are good theories. Yet, for example, despite all my extreme efforts, I can't get anyone to canonize a 'direct perception' view of perception, despite so many people publishing on this view, which ends up in these AI summaries of what people are arguing.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me point out what I believe to be obvious to an expert problems with these summaries of what is being said by everyone.</div><div><br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">BillK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gemini 2.5 Pro -</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_4892640177981332365m_6839378105510139881m_-7650281692959529495gmail-model-response-message-contentr_0524df9d9e00a459" dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">An analysis of the provided text reveals a proposition to reframe the "hard problem" of consciousness as a more manageable "quality problem"</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">This approach posits that the subjective experience of qualities, or qualia, such as the color red, can be understood by identifying their corresponding physical substrate or dynamic pattern within the brain</span>.</p><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><button style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></button><button style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></button></div><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Summary of the Argument</p><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></p><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The central thesis of the document is a shift away from the conventional "hard problem," which questions how physical brain processes create subjective experience, toward a "mapping challenge"</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The goal is to pinpoint the specific neural or physical state that </span><i style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">is</span></i><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"> the experience of redness and to confirm that this state exhibits the expected behavioral and causal properties associated with that experience</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">This perspective is aligned with "Realist Identity Theory" or "Russellian Monism"</span>.<button style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></button></p><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">This reframing is presented as significant for several reasons. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">It transforms the problem from a philosophical mystery into an empirical, scientific question that can be investigated using tools like brain imaging, lesion studies, and AI modeling</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">It also treats qualia as causally effective, meaning they are not just passive byproducts but are integral to how the brain functions and guides behavior</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">This view is supported by frameworks such as Functionalist Realism and Neurophenomenology</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The argument is also framed as parsimonious, as it avoids the need for dualistic explanations by suggesting that the qualia of red is a yet-to-be-identified property within the brain itself</span>.<button style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></button></p><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The document outlines several possibilities for what "redness" could be in the brain:</p><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">A specific neural activation pattern, such as a unique firing of neurons in the V4 area of the visual cortex</span>.</p><p></p></li><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">A particular type of information integration, as proposed by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)</span>.</p><p></p></li><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">A specific configuration of the brain's electromagnetic field</span>.</p><p></p></li><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">An intrinsic, non-reducible property of a brain state, in line with Russellian Monism</span>.</p><p></p></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">A proposed method for identifying this "redness" substrate involves collecting subjective reports, finding correlated neural states, isolating their physical features, and matching these to the behavioral roles of the color red</span>. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">In essence, the argument concludes that the hard problem might be a "which-is-it?" question rather than a "how-is-it-possible?" one</span>.</p><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><button style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></button></div><p></p><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></p><h3 style="font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Criticisms and Problems</h3><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"></p><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Despite its pragmatic framing, the argument presented in the document is subject to several significant criticisms:</p><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><b style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">It Sidesteps the Core "Hard Problem":</b> The central criticism is that this reframing does not solve the hard problem but merely renames it or pushes it back a step. Even if a perfect correlation between a specific neural state and the subjective experience of red is found, the fundamental question remains: <i style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">why</i> is that physical state associated with the <i style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">feeling</i> of redness and not another quality, or no quality at all? <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The document itself acknowledges this by stating, "Once we identify that, we haven't eliminated the mystery of experience — but we've localized it"</span>. This localization does not explain the genesis of subjective experience.</p></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>If you include the 'subjective binding' part of the conversation, it does explain the genesis of subjective experience. And see below for more info.</div><div><br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_4892640177981332365m_6839378105510139881m_-7650281692959529495gmail-model-response-message-contentr_0524df9d9e00a459" dir="ltr"><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><b style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The "Is" of Identity is Assumed, Not Proven:</span></b><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"> The argument rests on the assumption of a "Realist Identity Theory"—that the brain state </span><i style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">is</span></i><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"> the quality of redness</span>. This is a philosophical stance, not a scientifically established fact. Critics would argue that correlation does not equal identity. Simply finding a neural correlate of consciousness (NCC) for "redness" does not prove that the neural activity <i style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">is</i> the experience itself.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>This is false or irrelevant. The prediction is that there is an experimentally demostatable or discoverable necessary and sufficient set of neural states that is behaving the way it does, because of its redness quality. You don't need to "prove that the neural activity is the experience" but it will reliably, 100% of the time be experimentally demonstrated to be the case. 'falsifiable' or 'demonstratable' never means it will be proven, but that doesn't matter. It will never be experimentally falsifiable, once the theory has been repeatedly proven for every mind.</div><div><br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_4892640177981332365m_6839378105510139881m_-7650281692959529495gmail-model-response-message-contentr_0524df9d9e00a459" dir="ltr"><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><b style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The Problem of Explanation vs. Description:</b> The proposed method is effective at <i style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">describing</i> what happens in the brain when someone sees red. However, a complete description of a physical system is not the same as an explanation for why it has subjective properties. <span style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Knowing the exact firing pattern of neurons or the specific "information integration topology"</span> that corresponds to red does not, in itself, explain the redness of red.</p></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same issue as before. The more important thing is demonstrability. 100% of the time, if you have the necessary and sufficient set of neural states for a particular elemental redness quality, that brain will always be experiencing that particular redness quality.</div><div><br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_4892640177981332365m_6839378105510139881m_-7650281692959529495gmail-model-response-message-contentr_0524df9d9e00a459" dir="ltr"><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><b style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">The Challenge of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity:</span></b><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"> The proposed method relies on collecting "subjective reports"</span>. However, there is no way to be certain that the quality one person calls "red" is the same as the quality another person calls "red" (the inverted spectrum problem). While their brain states might be functionally identical, their subjective experiences could differ, a possibility this framework struggles to account for.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> There are 3 ways to eff the ineffable. The method being described here is only the 1) week form of effing the ineffable. There is also the 2) stronger, and 3 strongest way of effing the ineffable as described <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JKwACeT3b1bta1M78wZ3H2vWkjGxwZ46OHSySYRWATs/edit?tab=t.0">here</a>.</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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_4892640177981332365m_6839378105510139881m_-7650281692959529495gmail-model-response-message-contentr_0524df9d9e00a459" dir="ltr"><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><b style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Functionalism's Blind Spot:</span></b><span style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"> The approach leans on functionalist ideas, where qualia "do computational or discriminative work"</span>. However, philosophical thought experiments like the "China brain" or "philosophical zombies" challenge this view. A system could, in theory, perform all the same functions as a conscious brain (discriminating red objects, reacting to them, etc.) without having any subjective experience at all. The document's framework does not adequately address why a functional state must have a qualitative character.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Again, there is a lot more to this problem than what was contained in that post. In addition to 100% of the time being able to predict when someone is experiencing a particular elemental redness quality, once we know which of all our descriptions of stuff in the brain is a description of redness, there will also be the 3 ways to provably demonstrate that these are correct as described in the aforementioned <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JKwACeT3b1bta1M78wZ3H2vWkjGxwZ46OHSySYRWATs/edit?tab=t.0">3 types of effing the ineffable</a> document.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_4892640177981332365m_6839378105510139881m_-7650281692959529495gmail-model-response-message-contentr_0524df9d9e00a459" dir="ltr"><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><b style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Over-simplification of Conscious Experience:</b> The focus on a single quale like "redness" is a simplification. Conscious experience is a unified, holistic phenomenon. It is unclear how identifying the substrate for individual qualia would scale up to explain the rich, integrated nature of a conscious scene, complete with thoughts, emotions, and a sense of self.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One of the fundamental thesis of my work on qualia is that everyone is making things way too complicated. The prediction is that once someone demonstrates something relatively simple like which of all the stuff in our brain is a description of redness, and they understand how redness and greenness can be subjectively bound into one unified gestalt experience of direct apprehension of those qualities (something beyond cause and effect observation). This same understanding will then get us around the so-called 'hard problem' and make the rest of consciousness a doable problem, using the same understanding. In other words, the prediction is that once someone maps the color qualities like redness and greenes to the right physics (i.e. we know the true color qualities of things) not only will we be able to know what is and isn't conscious, we will know what it is all like. And using this same understanding on the rest of subjective consciousness once we understand color qualities, we will finally have the tools and physical understanding needed to figure out what the rest of it is like, using the same understanding. To say nothing about we will finally have the understanding to start doing phenomenal neural hacking, like inverting color qualities for people getting tired of not being able to do things like switch redness and greenness visual qualies, and engineering neural prostheses to replace destroyed eyes, enabling people to see the right (or inverted or any other mapping if desired) color qualities.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>