First, I have found that some readers just didn’t get my blue banana alternative.
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TRAD: Look. It’s just obvious! You can’t deduce what a color looks like if you’ve never seen one!
DCD: That’s an interesting folk theorem, I must say. Here’s another: If you burp, sneeze and fart all at the same time, you die.
DCD: That’s an interesting folk theorem, I must say. Here’s another: If you burp, sneeze and fart all at the same time, you die.
In “Quining Qualia” (Dennett, 198 cool , I discussed the example of the torn Jell-O box, half of which has shape property M, and the other half of which is the only practical M-detector.
Swamp Mary: Just as standard Mary is about to be released from prison, a bolt of lightning rearranges her brain.