Do different things taste the same to different people?

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Also, how can you tell?

― Donkey Dick, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

We can't know, any more than we can know that the red of a strawberry or the sound of a middle C on a flute look/sound the same to someone else, or come to that the touch of a red hot poker feels the same. We can only assume it - and infer that it is a reasonable assumption from the similarity of brain impulses in similar areas invoked by these things.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

So are you eleven years old, or high?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Or both?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually 30, but I was really into cough syrup last summer.

So, you probably get the idea.

― Donkey Dick, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you Derek Erdman?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry: D3r3k Erdm@n.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit man, I dunno.

― Donkey Dick, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If so, I own one of yr paintings.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Which one? Is it any good?

― Donkey Dick, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's of a tooth. With a red background. I like it a lot; that's why I bought it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(I found it at the WLUW Record Fair last summer.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, thanks a lot! Also, did I write anything snappy on the back?

I bought some choice records at that fair including SSD's "The Kids Will Have Their Say" for $7!

― Donkey Dick, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing snappy on the back, no.

And you're welcome!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, you sure as hell can know if people perceive things the same way. It's expensive as shit and involves a lot of intense tests, but it is doable.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Not only do different things taste the same to different people, but they all taste like to chicken, if reports are to be believed.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

but like when you ssee the color green how do you really know its green? you know?

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you'll need to explain how we can be sure any two people experience the same taste, Girolamo - since we are talking about sensory impressions, necessarily privileged, I don't see how we can do more than make the inference I mentioned, from the similarity of the impulses in the same parts of the brain - but that is far from settling it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 June 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're Der3k 3rdman, than I think you emailed me about a band ad I posted on craigslist and I looked at your website and then I didn't email you back because your website was too intimidatingly cool. I am a jerk.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

how many tastes are there?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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