[extropy-chat] effing

[Acy Stapp]

On 12/5/05, Acy Stapp <acy.stapp at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, let's do a thought experiment. Assume you are red/green color
> blind. Both red and green objects are the same color, which I will
> call 'reen'. I hand you two balls, one red and one green. You observe
> that they are both reen. I reply that one is red and one is green, and
> that neither ball has reenness. In fact, to me the quale of reen is
> nonsensical.
>
> Nanosanta arrives and everyone suddenly has perfect tricolor vision.
> Does the quale of reen still exist? [1]

Or rather, Are the balls still reen, even though no being is able to
perceive said color?

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw