On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:37:23PM +0100, Folderol wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:24:24 +0200 > [email protected] wrote: > > > 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. > > This brings back memories of long arguments amongst my friends (when > we were all young and spotty). > > We thought we'd pinned it down when someone suggested that the only way > to be sure, would be if humans developed telepathy - a whole 'nother > arguing point :) > > That got shot down when someone suggested that the brain would have to > do some form of translation to telepathic 'waves' and how could we be > sure that everyone would translate the same way :)
Yes. This was pointed out by Wittgenstein some 0.75 centuries ago - you can't prove consciousness. Even if you torture someone and he's screaming like hell, you can always say "it's a robot progranmed to act like this when given the stimuli we are giving it", and there's no way to disprove that. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
