confused
I found myself wondering, recently, what the difference between red and loud is. They are both subjective sensations, but as a conscious individual I find some way to seperate them. I don't really know what the difference is. Perhaps I could say that one is a colour and the other is a sound, but this does not actually tell me what the difference is, rather, it simply expands the comparison. Is it possible that the only difference is that they are different? That would make sense and allow for a infinite number of possible sensations (because each needs only to be different from the past) but then, wouldnt I need to understand everything to talk about any sensation. In order to say that I see red, I must really see that which is different from blue, black, loud, extended, painful, longing, etc. Or perhaps it needs only be different from what we have already experienced. The mind could theoretically work that way. Thus if we saw a new color, the mind would simply create a new visual experience. But in order to see a new colour, our brains would have to be reconstructed. In reconstructing our brains, do we determine the nature of the color to the conscious individual? I suspect not, and in fact it seems most logical to me to state that color or noise is just data, and we are confused into thinking that it has some other form. As data, a colour is simply numerically different from others, and our minds are confused into believeing that there exists some substance to the thought process.