[LAD] twice as loud

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from James Morris's message of 2010-07-23 10:25:44 +0200:
> On 23 July 2010 08:37, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thursday 22 July 2010 23:53:14 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> >> Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-07-22 23:24:24 +0200:
> >> > We all agree on what 'red' means. Because we have learned
> >> > the meaning of that word by association.  But do we 'see'
> >> > the same thing ? AFAIK, that is impossible to verify.
> 
> We all agree on what red means; red is red; we agree that red is red.
> 
> Redness is not reducible to anything else, apparently:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

I didn't know it had a name. It definitely is a worthy problem.
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Regards,
Philipp

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