Yes, and shapes are an appearance. An ovoid egg being in the fridge isn't an external cause of perception. It can't be reduced to just being the wave-...
It's red1 and red2 all over again. You can use the word "pain" to refer to the external cause of pain if you like, but when I talk about pain in every...
And I agree; I have no clear idea what "ovoid" might be as distinct from either ovoid-as-seen or ovoid-as-felt. Ovoids are only meaningful as an appea...
But you don't think the same about ovoid-as-felt? The egg is ovoid, external things (i.e. waves/particles) aren't ovoid, and so eggs aren't external t...
So you think of it being oviod-as-seen when the light goes out? And ovoid-as-felt when you stop touching it? I think both are a case of mistaken proje...
Yes. Shape is as much a feature of experience as colour. There are ovoids-as-seen, ovoids-as-felt, and these aren't at all similar (see Molyneux's pro...
An even simpler example: fire causes most of us to feel pain. Pain isn’t some external “hidden state”; it’s a quality of our experience. Colour is of ...
The explanation is that they scatter light at a wavelength of 650nm and that when light of this wavelength stimulates the sense receptors in our eyes ...
Because the colour one sees is determined by how one’s brain responds to signals from one’s eyes. The same external stimulation but different colour e...
Saying that a red dress isn't a blue dress isn't saying that a dress can't be both red and blue. Here's a red dress: https://m.media-amazon.com/images...
I haven't claimed that it cannot. In fact I explicitly said above that it can. Maybe I should repeat myself? A dress can be red and blue. Or it can ju...
A dress can be red and blue. Or it can just be red. Or it can just be blue. Or it can be some other colour or combination of colours. In this scenario...
I don't quite understand what we're talking about now. My only point has been that even though the Constitution doesn't explicitly say "it is unconsti...
Maybe it can, but in this scenario it isn't. Neither person A nor person B sees a white and gold and black and blue dress. Person A only sees a white ...
I was paraphrasing this: "Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and ...
I'm not saying that it has to. I'm saying: 1. Some hidden state X causes person A to see a white and gold dress and person B to see a black and blue d...
I'm not saying that it must. I'm saying that if two people are seeing different things (one a black and blue dress, the other a white and gold dress) ...
But people see different things despite the same external hidden state, e.g some a white and gold dress and some a black and blue dress. Therefore it’...
Responding in the way called "seeing blue" is just seeing blue, and responding in the way called "seeing red" is just seeing red. We have experiences,...
Then you still have to explain what you mean by one person seeing something as red and another person seeing that same thing as blue. Does each person...
So? What's the difference between saying "x causes us to see green" and saying "x causes us to respond in the way described as 'seeing green'"? It's t...
https://www.blog.theteamw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/redblue.png If the same hidden state causes you to see the colour on the left and me to see t...
If both "red" and "blue" refer to hidden state X then red and blue are the same colour, and the person who sees red and the person who sees blue are s...
Hidden state X causes me to see red and you to see blue. What does "red" and "blue" refer to here? It doesn't refer to hidden state X, otherwise we wo...
Because I can see the difference between red and blue. It's immediately apparent. Therefore red and blue aren't hidden states. Because we're shown a b...
When I see the dress as white and gold and you see the dress as black and blue, what do the words "white", "gold", "black", and "blue" refer to? They ...
I don't know what you mean by saying that they're the "same world." All I'm saying is: 1. Some object is red1 if it causes most humans to see red2, al...
No, because as I have also said, it is wrong to say that the external world causes of experience is the postbox. The "as green" and "as blue" is very ...
The "green" in "seeing green" doesn't mean the same thing as your suggested "green" as a property of a hidden state. The former is what most people un...
I’m not saying that there isn’t a bird. I’m saying that birds aren’t the external world causes of experience. Waves/particles are the external world c...
Do you remember the dress that some people see as black and blue and others as white and gold? Same stimulus, different colours experienced. Your acco...
Yes, so as I have been saying, it is up to the Supreme Court to decide what counts as a person as the Constitution doesn't spell it out. It protects a...
By the State. But like with the First Amendment it might not apply to non-Government institutions. Whereas the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment might im...
It doesn't. The Constitution doesn't explicitly state what counts as a person at all and that's precisely why a judge needs to look beyond just what i...
Taking colour as an example, the colour that I see isn't the colour that the bird sees, even though the external world objects are the same. The colou...
I saw this image recently: https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/human-vs-bird-vision-5da4645361543__700.jpg Under an "ordinary" ...
Wave-particles holding wave-particles? That's a category error and is the exact kind of naive projection that I mentioned earlier. The external world ...
I think that it would be like saying that there's a person on the TV, when really it's just a bunch of pixels on the screen being lit up a certain way...
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