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| Sep 24, 2022 at 19:32 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | Also, leading theorists are always saying things, but physics is not a popularity contest, and even the valor of string theory has fallen gravely by now, so I'm not too interested in what people say about random rearrangements of symbols they came up with (causal sets, triangles, crystals, strings, branes, preons, holograms, Christopher Langan's gobbledygook, level-4 objective multiverses, ruliads, yadayadayada). I mean I'm interested, and it's worth considering to some extent, but unless there's experimental/tech applications, it's hard to see its value. | |
| Sep 24, 2022 at 19:28 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | If visual qualia intrinsically present with a certain "geometrical signature," so to speak (or each with its own such axiomatic signature! or at least subcategories), then the explanation for visual qualia will require describing how spacetime/metrodynamic functions of a much different signature can generate simple qualitative states (e.g. color patches, or lines of intentionality in the imagination) that are "false." I don't see how they could be false. They're data to be accounted for, not handwaved out of the picture. | |
| Sep 24, 2022 at 16:17 | history | answered | CriglCragl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |