Hi, Thursday, November 6, 2003, 2:24:49 PM, you wrote:
> It's an interesting thought, but what I perceive to be blue might actually > what you perceive to be green. Imagine people around you who go thru life > seeing 'blue' vegetables (though it seems perfectly normal to them *because* > that's what they always known the label 'green' to refer to). And how would > one actually prove any of this? I don't think it's empirically testable. If two people attach the same label to the same experience then that is all we can know, or need to know. I have no empirical evidence that other people think; you could all be automata* as far as I know, but I assume that you all do think. It's similar to the Turing** test, or these games of Chinese boxes that AI researchers enjoy so much. Cheers, Bob *as a matter of fact I happen to think exactly that, except that I include myself as an automaton. It doesn't alter the argument. **I've always believed that 'the Who' of long ago was a Turing test that some researcher was conducting. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
