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Comment author: amcknight 03 February 2012 11:29:41PM 7 points [-]

Which returns us to the dilemma: either "experiences" exist and part of them is actually green, or you have to say that nothing exists, in any sense, at any level of reality, that is actually green.

The third option is my favourite:
Good news everyone! There are all kinds of different things that you can permissibly call green! Classes of wavelengths, dispositions in retnas, experiences in brains, all kinds of things! Now we have the fun choice of deciding which one is most interesting and what we want to talk about! Yay!

Comment author: David_Gerard 03 February 2012 11:50:13PM 2 points [-]

And Fallacies of Compression was just in the sequence reruns a couple of days ago, too ...

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 04 February 2012 03:16:31AM 0 points [-]

I'm talking about experiences in brains.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 February 2012 12:58:38AM *  0 points [-]

Well, then, you've just told us where to find green. When neuroscientists find the spot to poke that makes their subjects say 'Wow, that is so GREEN', what do you say then?

I haven't been following this closely, but unless you're taking the exact dualist stance you say below that you're denying, it really seems like that should be the answer.

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