Revealing my ignorance here, but what exactly is a 'game of Chinese boxes'? Inquisitively, Ryan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:31 AM Subject: Re: Colour fidelity & low-light AF of *ist-D > 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] > >
