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Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by Symmetry on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:37PM (#19040799)
Subjectively, I don't feel like I can distinguish shades of joy or anger with infinite precision. I can't properly express my feelings the same way I can't properly express exactly where between blue and green a certain turquoise I'm looking at is. But I know a scientific instrument can give a number for the later and I don't feel I have any basis for ruling out the idea that some future scientific instrument can quantify the former.
Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by PavlovsCat on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:17PM (#19041702)
> I know a scientific instrument can give a number for the later

For how a color looks to you, or just for the wavelength of light something emits?

Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by Symmetry on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:19AM (#19045853)
I would have hoped that it was obvious from context I was talking about the later.