Creatures that cannot receive the kind of information they need to live their lives die out. So, unlike the televisions, O and O* maybe doing as well as each other, but living lives with different sensory experiences: seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, and feeling differently. It is this equality that suggests, as Russell later put it, that it would be ‘favouritism’ to say that the world is better represented in one of these ways than in any other.

