wedrifid comments on How to think like a quantum monadologist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 27 October 2009 12:55:15AM 0 points [-]

I have yet to see any such explanation.

And a color blind person may never see green. I wonder, if everybody was color blind would green cease to be a fundamental property of physics?

Comment author: RobinZ 27 October 2009 02:08:08PM 0 points [-]

Back up: since when has color been a fundamental property of physics? Wavelength is, but wavelength and color are not identical.

Comment author: wedrifid 27 October 2009 02:52:42PM 1 point [-]

Some day I'm going to learn not to speak in facetious riddles.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 October 2009 11:29:40AM * 0 points [-]

I wonder, if everybody was color blind would green cease to be a fundamental property of physics?

Why not? Roughly speaking, if everyone was 2-dimensional, why would we see the world as 3-dimensional?

Edit: this came out wrong, for obscure reasons.

Comment author: Alicorn 27 October 2009 12:03:02PM 3 points [-]

Are you substituting in "believed to be a fundamental property of physics" for "being a fundamental property of physics"?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 October 2009 04:44:37PM * 1 point [-]

My fault. That comment was some kind of cached thought that I can't quite examine now to explain what I thought I was writing.