Since we can presumably generate the appropriate signals in the optic nerve from scratch if we choose, light and its wavelength have nothing whatsoever to do with color.
Downvoted for strange non sequitur. We could theoretically pipe in the appropriate electrical impulses to the part of your brain responsible for auditory processing, but that doesn’t mean hearing has “nothing whatsoever” to do with sound.
The upvote was mine; I agree that ‘nothing whatsoever’ was too strong, but thought that the point about qualia observably having more to do with brainstates than the stimulii that evoke them was useful.
Since we can presumably generate the appropriate signals in the optic nerve from scratch if we choose, light and its wavelength have nothing whatsoever to do with color.
Downvoted for strange non sequitur. We could theoretically pipe in the appropriate electrical impulses to the part of your brain responsible for auditory processing, but that doesn’t mean hearing has “nothing whatsoever” to do with sound.
The upvote was mine; I agree that ‘nothing whatsoever’ was too strong, but thought that the point about qualia observably having more to do with brainstates than the stimulii that evoke them was useful.