Re: More on qualia of consciousness and occam's razor

2004-02-16 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
Pete, I hope you don't mind my replying to the list. - Original Message - From: Pete Carlton [EMAIL PROTECTED] But even this goes way out in front of what we can possibly know. You say we have no idea what these feelings are like to experience--but why should we assume we

Re: More on qualia of consciousness and occam's razor

2004-02-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Eric Cavalcanti wrote: BEGINQUOTE- Pete Carlton wrote: In any case, I grant that the blind man's experience would be quite different from someone who's actually looking at the color red. This is just because the functional states of someone who is seeing red are different than those of

Re: More on qualia of consciousness and occam's razor

2004-02-16 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
- Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pete Carlton wrote: In any case, I grant that the blind man's experience would be quite different from someone who's actually looking at the color red. This is just because the functional states of someone who is

Black Holes and Gravity Carrier

2004-02-16 Thread Ron McFarland
Greetings again to the list. It has been a while since I posted something to think about, and in that case I did a lot of arguing for my cause! I enjoyed it a lot, and I hope others did too. But I again must stress that I do not rise to the level where I can appreciate deep mathematical