confused

[foolishhippo]

I found myself wondering, recently, what the difference between red and loud is. They are both subjective sensations, but as a conscious individual I find some way to seperate them. I don't really know what the difference is. Perhaps I could say that one is a colour and the other is a sound, but this does not actually tell me what the difference is

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[tom_servo]

>Or perhaps it needs only be different from what we have already experienced. The mind could theoretically work that way. Thus if we saw a new color, the mind would simply create a new visual experience. But in order to see a new colour, our brains would have to be reconstructed. In reconstructing our brains, do we determine the nature of the color to the conscious individual?

Experience is the base for perception...so yes, a "new" color is simply one that is different from those you have already experienced. However, you are leaving out the fact that that color is not simply percieved and understood for its subjective value...but for objective qualities, like wavelength, that cannot be changed by perception.

>As data, a colour is simply numerically different from others, and our minds are confused into believeing that there exists some substance to the thought process.

You don't give the human mind enough credit, nor do you give enough credit to the act of observing, itself...*grin*

yours truly,
bj