This is now nothing to do with light.
By the way I see this Nanook bloke is a UFO/Alien abductions nut as well. So that's probably how MR has discovered him, through some UFO website...
Expert sleuthing, well done! So this guy is some obscure amateur blogger who likes to blog about physics, in a slightly quantum woo-ish kind of way....
Where does this last quote in bold come from? It is not from the link you provided. I notice it has that irritating, Chopra-esque, quantum woo,...
No doubt the term "packet" may seem inadequate. Einstein invented a new word for these packets: quanta.
Since this is now about physics, I'll respond. The best-known and first discovered empirical evidence is the photo-electric effect, which is what...
It's just what my father (and his father before him) used to call "higgorance" on her part, the idea of course being that "higgorance" is how an...
I’m pleased by this finding. It implies there really are intrinsic differences between the sexes, in line with my experience, and that greater...
No. There can be hallucinations, under certain circumstances, sure. That obviously does not mean the sensation of colour is a hallucination, as you...
What's the point of quoting this stuff? Obviously both the sensory system and the interpreting system can give false signals under some...
It would indeed be deeply stupid to ascribe a sensation to the external object being sensed, but as nobody is suggesting any such thing, the point is...
This is silly. Next, you'll be telling us the smell of a banana is a hallucination, or the sensation of stubbing one's toe on a chair. Abusing terms...
Cobblers.
What ballocks. I've seen this kind of thing before and it is strikes me as an extremely unhelpful idea, to put it mildly. You can't claim that...
It's you that is inserting "third person" here, not Pigliucci. Since our thoughts are patterns of nerve impulses in the brain, so is our experience....
There is only a huge gap if you are prisoner of Cartesian dualism. Set that aside and there is no reason why the electrical patterns cannot...
Sure, colour is a sensation rather than a property in physics.
OK but that’s just saying what I too have been saying: QM dispenses with the need to force nature into either a pure wave or a pure particle model....
Is that right, though? I'd certainly agree physicists don't need either pure particle or pure wave models for quantum entities, because quantum...
I'd have thought light is physics. Surely it is the perception of light (possibly including the perception of colour) by an organism that requires...
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