Re: Does green exist?: how to build a mind (was Identity)

Timothy Bates (tbates@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:14:48 +1100

Hi all,
> daniel.fabulich wrote
> >can you prove that Green exists?
i said
> go to <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.obrien.html>
dan did but on his return he said:
>...I don't see how it demonstrates the existence of a "Green"
>spearate from all green things, or even a "mind" which is beyond its
>substrate. Did I miss something...?

well. yes and no. If this is a debate about platonic reality then it is I who have missed something. The point of gerard's paper is about qualia, which is what i thought you guys were meaning by the term green.

cheers,
tim

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