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Oliver Sacks' Final Word on the Qualia of Color
12017-11-20T02:11:38-08:00Austin Amadio2b32c93ffe05237cdc27b21589efe32c97257459253261Block quote from the bottom of page 41.image_header2017-11-20T02:11:38-08:00Austin Amadio2b32c93ffe05237cdc27b21589efe32c97257459"On the ultimate question–the question of qualia: why a particular sensation may be perceived as red–the case of Jonathon I. may not be able to help us at all. After describing 'the celebrated phenomenon of colours,' Newton drew back from all speculation about sensation and would hazard no hypothesis as to 'by what modes or action light produceth in our minds the phantasms of colours.' Three centuries later, we still have no hypothesis, and perhaps such questions can never be answered at all."