Michael

The red part of hallucinating red, dreaming red, and seeing red are all the same thing; the occurrence of that mental percept, either reducible to or ...

No. See division by zero:

"this sentence contains five words" is grounded and is true. "this sentence contains fifty words" is grounded and is false. "this sentence is false" i...

I do know that. It refers to itself, it contains five words, and so it doesn’t contain fifty words. They are discussing the liar paradox. We are not d...

What does it mean to say that brain activity is about distal objects? Regardless, our primary concern isn't with intentionality but with appearances. ...

Phenomenal consciousness is either reducible to or supervenient on brain activity. The only connection between distal objects and brain activity is th...

But you weren't talking about the liar paradox. You were talking about the sentences "this sentence contains five words" and "this sentence contains f...

You asked me "what's the difference between hallucinating red and the mental percept that 620-750nm light ordinarily causes to occur." The mental perc...

I don't even understand what you're trying to say here. That I can't see pain when I look at that chart? Obviously, because pain is felt, not seen. Th...

And we agree as to what is painful and what isn't. As always your arguments are non sequiturs.

No it’s not. No it doesn’t. It contains five words and so is false.

It's not. Here are two propositions: 1. It is raining 2. "it is raining" is true iff it is raining (1) and (2) do not mean the same thing. (1) is true...

1. This sentence contains five words 2. This sentence contains fifty words (1) is true and (2) is false. It's not complicated. I don't understand the ...

Yes? And the sentence would be false.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23350-hallucinations#possible-causes https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-we-dream

Did you even read the comment you quoted?

The differences are explained by the cause of the mental percept, as I literally explained in the comment you quoted.

The suggestion is that I am on the left, Lionino is on the right, and that the colour we each see the apple to be is a mental phenomenon, falsely proj...

How have I come to learn the meaning of the word "pain"?

You cannot pass me pain or colours.

The question is "do objects like tomatoes, strawberries and radishes really have the distinctive property that they do appear to have?". Any interpret...

Yes, and so we engage in further examination. We do not simply leave it at “we agree that tomatoes are red.”

If "the tomato is red" means "the tomato looks red" and if the word "red" in the phrase "looks red" does not refer to a property of the tomato then to...

And if you were arguing for one of them then we could have a meaningful discussion. My problem is with your approach to the problem. Our concern is wi...

Yes, because we don’t have an answer yet. If pain is not a part of knives then how can it be a neural process? Your question doesn’t make much sense. ...

This is the issue: The question "do objects like tomatoes, strawberries and radishes really have the distinctive property that they do appear to have"...

And that is not relevant to the question "do objects like tomatoes, strawberries and radishes really have the distinctive property that they do appear...

I understand it just fine, as do I suspect most laymen, scientists, and philosophers of colour. Try reading the first section of the SEP article.

The question "do objects like tomatoes, strawberries and radishes really have the distinctive property that they do appear to have?" is not answered b...

No it doesn't. See for example the science and complexity of bitter taste:

That does not follow, and nor does it follow that if they have a property in common then this common property is the property that they appear to have...

These questions are not answered by saying that we sometimes use the term "red light" to refer to 700nm light and that tomatoes and strawberries refle...

@"Banno" Do you have a digital copy of Searle's Seeing Things as They Are? I seem to recall that you agree with his theory of perception? I ask becaus...

The percept that occurs when we hallucinate red is the percept that occurs when we dream red is the percept that optical stimulation by 620-750nm ligh...

It needs the support of physics and the neuroscience of perception, which it doesn't have. It's not the sort of thing that can be proved a priori or j...

It's no more absurd than saying the same thing about pain. Pain is the experience of pain.

I doubt anyone who would not give consideration to the difference is going to be asking for a linguistic analysis of the word “colour” in a discussion...

Except he says “the colour ‘red’” and not “the word ‘red’”. I think it more likely that he is misusing quotation marks than misusing the word “colour”...

I didn’t say that. I was only saying that the percepts that occur when dreaming red and hallucinating red are the percepts that ordinarily occur when ...

We know how things affect the world and so can know about a thing from its effect. Perhaps a different analogy is more helpful. A blind man can know t...

You have previously said that colours are both appearances and something else. Except by this you just mean that the word "colours" can be used to ref...

And only the sense relevant to the question being asked is relevant, not any other sense. It is clear in context that the OP isn't asking if light or ...

You seem to be intentionally misrepresenting my position, so I'll try an even simpler approach. The term "colour" is also used to refer to the way qua...

I addressed this with the example of the Morning Star, but perhaps you need a simpler example. If you ask me if bats are blind, and if in context it's...

I believe in the existence of a Geiger counter despite the fact that experiences might not resemble their cause for the same reason that you believe i...

I already have. Why won't you answer my question? Why do you trust a Geiger counter to tell you the local level of radiation? It doesn't resemble radi...

Why do you trust a Geiger counter to tell you the local level of radiation?

I don't even know what you mean by "senses telling the truth". Hanover and I are talking about experiences resembling their causes. Russell said the o...

I addressed that with the very question I asked you, and which you conspicuously didn't answer. We don't need our experiences to resemble the things w...

Do you trust the numbers on a Geiger counter to tell you the amount of radiation in the environment, even though the numbers do not resemble radiation...