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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Does consciousness persist? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 16 February 2015 11:05:41AM 1 point [-]

trying to define red

Red is the color of surfaces emitting/transmitting/scattering plenty of low-energy visible light but little high-energy visible light. Doesn't sound too tricky to me. What am I missing?

Comment author: G0W51 16 February 2015 06:08:31PM 0 points [-]

Again, I think we're this is more vocabulary confusion. When you said red, I think you meant the causes of one experiencing what we call "seeing red". When I said red, I meant one's subjective experience of red, as opposed to the subjective experience of blue. If one was changed so that when the photons of the wavelength that's normally seen as red were instead seen as what's normally seen as blue, there would be a difference is what is subjectively experienced, even though one can't rigorously define it.