From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 01:12:54 MDT
But then, of course, "taste" is a perception imposed upon reality.
Salt has no taste. The "correct" impression of the 'taste of salt',
then, is clearly an impossibility. The communication of a particular
individual's perception of the 'taste' of salt is, of course, a mere
improbability at worst.
jm
On 4 Jun 2001, at 2:32, John Clark wrote:
> Brent Allsop <allsop@fc.hp.com> Wrote:
>
> >I bet you can't find very many people at all these days that will demand
> >that we will never have the ability to do something like communicate to
> >another conscious being what the taste of salt is like.
>
> Sure, you might be able to do that someday, you might even be able to do it
> correctly, but you will never be able to prove you're doing it correctly.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>
>
John Marlow
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