Hannah Fry
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But I mean, there's a reason why they call this the hard problem, which is literally the name of it.
What is it like to experience the world from inside somebody else's body?
It's a hard problem because it's not falsifiable, right?
You can have ideas and theories, but ultimately we just...
I mean, I think you're probably right that actually if you just swapped over the taste, for example, just the signal for taste, it would be like, well, this is a trippy experience.
But actually, ultimately, I don't think it would disintegrate your sense of self.
But if you swapped over all of it, the whole lot...
I think there's a chance you'd completely disintegrate.
There wouldn't be a you left.
Would you suddenly absolutely despise olives and love chili, you know?
I mean, you could hypnotize people into being colorblind.
Permanently or as a temporary... I mean, you gain one thing, you lose another.
I have a question about that.
Does it happen in a way that people notice it?