Hi Rick, all,
> A Natchez who distinguishes between the
> 'blue'
> and 'green' chips may just be distinguishing between what he sees as 2
> shades of the same color. The question above remains unanswered
> because we
> still don't know if the Natchez sees 2 different colors (blue and
> green) or
> merely 2 different of the same color ('bleen' or 'glue').
In conventional representational neural networks, one node or neuron
represents a thing. If a dog sees a bunch of hairs, a tail, body, face
and legs and all (which are assumed to be elements of the concept CAT)
then a neuron will fire saying 'this is a CAT', which then can be linked
to representations in memory like 'you can chase CATS'. And then the dog
might want to choose to chase the cat... in cognitive psychology it was
(and still is, actually) a hot topic two decades ago of whether there
exists in the brain of a dog a 'prototype' of a CAT.
That's psychology. Now MoQ.
Maybe the perception of the true color (without names) of things are
close to dynamic quality. A static quality emerges when a node or neuron
will fire saying this is 'green', 'blue', 'bleen', or 'glue'. That is a
static quality which we can use to think and/or do things. Concepts are
used as tools in thought and action. The question is how we divide the
field of perception or maybe consciousness in it's total to do/think
with it as static qualities.
Ah, I'm a bit annoyed because I wrote this mail just a quarter before. I
accidently sent it to the Virtual Heaven of mails sent nowhere to. But I
still hope I communicated the thing I intented to in the first place.
Does this make sense to you?
With friendly greetings, Patrick.
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