Suppose I point to a far off tree and ask you what color it is.\u00a0 You tell me the top part is green and the bottom part is brown.\u00a0 I give you a telescope and ask you to tell me again.\u00a0 You report that it is an apple tree, so the top part is red and green, and the trunk is brown.<\/p>\n

Note that the photons at the frequency corresponding to your rendition of “red” indeed were reaching your eye, however you lacked the resolution to see them.\u00a0 All you saw was green.<\/p>\n

This is akin to “white”.\u00a0 There is no such physical manifestation of “white”, i.e. no frequency of photons that corresponds to your rendition of “white”.\u00a0 Instead your eyes lack the resolution to break apart the photons (a prism is needed), and so the cones in your eye send out a code for white when they are unable to sort out the full spectrum of photons.\u00a0 White, being a qualia, does not physically exist, but what is more there is no physical manifestation that corresponds or participates in “white”.<\/p>\n

All that there is is a neural bit pattern.\u00a0 Neuron 5 is open, neuron 6 is closed, neuron 7 is open and neuron 8 is open.\u00a0 Note that this code is immaterial.\u00a0 You can probably find this code pattern in a million instances at one time over all the neural connections in your brain.\u00a0 So a code is not material, it is instead immaterial information.<\/p>\n

So what is white?\u00a0 It is an immaterial qualia conveyed as immaterial information via an immaterial code.<\/p>\n

This is a fatal problem for the heathens and “evolution of the gaps” will not solve it for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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