On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 2:41 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <
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*> one can discover whether your reports of green qualia correspond to
> something consistent in our shared world,*


Consistency is not the same as identity. If what you and I mean by the
words "red" and "green" were inverted then both of us would still say
tomatoes are red and leaves are green, but those things would not look
subjectively
the same to us.

John K Clark



>
> On 4/28/2021 9:06 AM, John Clark wrote:
>
> *> If we can explain why, for example, you see stars if you bash the back
>> of your head,*
>>
>
> It might be able to explain why I say "I see green stars" but that's not
> what you're interested in, you want to know why I subjectively experience
> the green qualia and if it's the same as your green qualia, but no theory
> can even prove to you that I see any qualia at all.
>
>
> No, but one can discover whether your reports of green qualia correspond
> to something consistent in our shared world, as opposed say to your reports
> of little green men when drunk.  That's why we have a word for qualia which
> is different from Illusion.
>
> Brent
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