From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-07-27T00:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you think of...

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Michael Campbell wrote:

> <chuckle> yes, it was a merely syntactic (phonetic?) question; what
> does the line sound like.

I don't understand what is behind the original question.  Why do you
want to know?  Isn't this close to "If I could copy the patterns of
activation in your brain when you see the colour red, and if I put them
in my brain, would I see red as well?"?  This seems to be related to the
idea of "qualia" which, as they relate to the question "what is
consciousness?", are interesting.  But I don't know what use you can
possibly make of the answers.

Therefore, since people don't generally ask useless questions in public
lists, I infer that I must have missed the real issues you are grappling
with here.  Another possibility is that you don't know what the issues
are either, and are using the question to find out why your hunch tells
you this has importance, i.e. to clarify things in your own mind.

> I often confuse myself, however.

I expect I've confused somebody with the above, as well.

        Hugh