Consciousness; a radically new theory. (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, July 06, 2015, 13:37 (3215 days ago) @ romansh

DAVID: But you and I will agree the buses are red.-ROM: No, I don't think so. We have an agreed upon nomenclature for certain visual experiences. An bear in mind that not everyone has the same experience of colour. If the bus were actually ‘red' that would be an amazing coincidence.-If we have an agreed upon nomenclature for certain visual experiences, then you and David will agree that the bus is red. Your experience of redness may be different, but the use of language is intersubjectively valid (i.e. valid for your experience and for his), and will be so for other people. It would only be an amazing coincidence if an almighty God accepted our terminology and laid down a law as to what did and did not constitute redness, and our experiences all matched his criteria.