[ExI] Fwd: New article: EM Field Theory of Consciousness

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't give a pyramid's dust about substrate etc.  But if two people say
something is red, they are having similar experiences.  That's the only way
we can arrive at general truths accepted by most people.  Are their brains
doing identical things? Surely not, but surely they are similar. (only in
the case of the red/green blind people will that not be true)

bill w

On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:07 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Fwd: New article: EM Field Theory of Consciousness
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 1:51 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
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> >>…One of these days, I'll figure out how to describe this simple concept,
> and everyone will finally get it.  Clearly, I haven't succeeded in
> describing this to anyone here, yet.
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> >…Is it not possible that at least some people here understand exactly
> what you are talking about and, based on the evidence, disagree?... Adrian
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> Another possibility Brent: there are people here who read about qualia and
> go immediately to a related question that the qualia discussions spawn (in
> my mind): is consciousness and perception substrate dependent?
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> If different people perceive red differently, clearly perception is a
> function of how the brain is constructed, which differs between people (and
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> When I recognize differences in perception of a concept such as red, it
> causes me concern that perception is substrate dependent (dang, I hope not.)
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