[ExI] Nobody knows the true colors of things, on this day of color.

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Dan, It looks like I may  have failed to include the link to the actual
answer?:
https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-brain-create-colour-How-would-you-explain-colour-to-a-blind-person/answer/Brent-Allsop-1
And as you can see, the first paragraph proves this kind of Naive Realism
view can't be true, for who's redness would be the property of the
strawberry?
Also, the book summary talked about how qualia: " are related to the
physical properties on which they supervene".
However if qualia supervene on something, then the qualia are different
than what they "supervene" on.
And Dennett says that <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia> qualia
are "*directly
or immediately apprehensible
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apprehend> by consciousness
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness>*".
In other words, qualia are directly apprehended.  We are interested in the
qualities we directly apprehend, not the different stuff on which they
allegedly supervene/intervene, right?

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 12:38 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Has anyone here read Michael Watkins 2002 book Rediscovering Colors: A
> Study in Pollyanna Realism?
>
> Abstract:
>
> ‘In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins
> endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties
> of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received
> view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to
> science, or else nothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is
> that Watkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics of
> colors. Consequently, Watkins provides an account of what colors are, how
> they are related to the physical properties on which they supervene, and
> how colors can be causally efficacious without the threat of causal
> overdetermination. Along the way, he provides novel accounts of normal
> conditions and non-human color properties. The book will be of interest to
> any metaphysician and philosopher of mind interested in colors and color
> perception.’
>
> I haven’t finished reading it, so no further comment at this time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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