Re: Predictions by Kurzweil

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 15:34:59 MST


> Gee Dan, I'm a little confused by this, If a bull has something in its
> visual field that is giving off light in the frequency that we know as
> red, and a bull has no color receptors Then the bull would most
> certainly not percieve that frequency with the same mental imagery as
> a human with the appropriate color receptors would. In fact A human
> would percieve something they would Identify as red and the bull would
> percieve something as a shade of grey.

First off, you're talking to a anti-mentalist here. I don't think
internal mental phenomena exist.

But second, and more relevantly, I assumed that the poster was referring
to the myth that a bull would have an especially different response to
RED, as opposed to brown or green or mauve. This happens to be wrong even
under the beliefs of most dualists.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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