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| author | Nicholas Johnson <nick@nicksphere.ch> | 2022-05-23 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Johnson <nick@nicksphere.ch> | 2022-05-23 00:00:00 +0000 |
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diff --git a/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md b/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md index 38af1b0..35265d3 100644 --- a/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md +++ b/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ During this process, no information about color is communicated to the child. Th How would one communicate color itself rather than just the agreed upon name of the color? It seems impossible. Vsauce has an excellent video about this titled "Is Your Red The Same as My Red?"[2]. He wonders if we can ever communicate what a color is. -Philosophers like Daniel Denette suggest that color might not be ineffable. Perhaps we just don't have the language to communicate color yet. If only we had precise enough words, using sufficiently many of them, we could communicate the experience of seeing color. I'm skeptical, but for now color is ineffable in every human language. All we can do is agree on common words. +Philosophers like Daniel Dennett suggest that color might not be ineffable. Perhaps we just don't have the language to communicate color yet. If only we had precise enough words, using sufficiently many of them, we could communicate the experience of seeing color. I'm skeptical, but for now color is ineffable in every human language. All we can do is agree on common words. # We Are All Alone In Our Minds And this ineffability of experience also generalizes to things besides color. I'll give a few examples. |