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To: js1138

"I know what green is."

And for all the rest, you didn't show me.

Bad scientist! ::swats with a nespaper::

If you "know" you can demonstrate it.

All you can demonstrate is that the mind can be fooled. Those are called "illusions"

By spinning a top, it does not become "green" it is still black and white.

Green exists as a universal form, whether you percieve it that way or not is up to you.

It can be argued that if you and I were to swap brains, "green" would become some other color to both of us. This is due to "perception"

"Your" green is not de facto "my" green. HOWEVER: There is a "green" out there that we both percieve AND identify as such. There is a universal idea of "green" just as there is a universal idea of "chair"


290 posted on 03/18/2005 8:50:54 AM PST by MacDorcha ("You can't reverse engineer something that was not engineered to begin with")
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To: MacDorcha

You have demonstrated that philosophers are capable of multiplying entities beyond necessity. Greenness probably corresponds to a behavior of the brain that can be mapped to a specific location. In that sense, and that sense alone, it is objective.


300 posted on 03/18/2005 8:58:29 AM PST by js1138
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