<div style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>On Monday, 29 June 2026 at 13:19, John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 6:54 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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 26/06/2026 15:46, Brent Allsop wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> </blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>> > Whatever has a red (or redness) quality is just a brute physical fact</i></font></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br><font size="4"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> </span>I'm curious about this idea that molecule X (or some other physical object) has a 'quality' that results in our seeing colour Y.</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>There is a question I've been asking Brent for a long time but I have never received a coherent answer: if molecule X in a strawberry is what gives it the redness <u>qualia</u><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>(I'm talking about<span class="gmail_default" style=""> qualia, </span>NOT the ability to reflect light at a certain wavelength) then <u>what gives molecule X the ability to do that</u>? There are only two possible answers to that question<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> but I don't think Brent likes either one. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Brent, if I'm wrong about that assumption concerning<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>you<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>then please correct me.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark<span><br></span></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><span><br></span></span></b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">That makes even less sense.</span></span></font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">How could a molecule in a strawberry cause a quale? The qualia happen in our brains, not in the strawberries (not unless they had brains, but even then it would be irrelevant, because they would be experiencing it, not us).<br></span></div></span></font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">---</span></div><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">Ben</span></span></font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">
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