[extropy-chat] Re: Qualia Bet

[Marc Geddes]

On 1/5/06, Brandon Reinhart <transcend at extropica.com> wrote:
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>  Does adding an additional cone provide a wider range of color, or merely
> a different range of color? Would transhuman artists potentially pursue eye
> modification that added more cones to their eyes (plus appropriate brain
> mods to process the extra "out of band" data)?
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> Brandon
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> According to Koch (see the footnotes on page 52-53 of 'The Quest for
> Consciousness') there are already a few extraordinary woman naturally born
> with 4 cones instead of the normal three.  It's not that clear that the
> visual cortex can handle the additional information property but it appears
> that these tetrachromat woman can experience subtler color hues.
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