Chapter 28

Chapter 28: The mind and the world

28.1 The myth of mental energy
28.2 Magnitude and marketplace
28.3 Quantity and quality
28.4 Mind over matter
28.5 The mind and the world
28.6 Minds and machines
28.7 Individual identities
28.8 Overlapping minds

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28.3 Quantity and quality, p 285
By their nature, quantitative descriptions are so one-dimensional
and featureless that they cannot help but conceal the structures
that give rise to them.
[...]
There is no quality of "sweetness" inherent in sugar itself
[...] Its quality of sweetness is, in effect, a currency
involved with certain agencies that are connected to sensors
that detect the presence of sugar.