[ExI] Red and green qualia

Dylan Distasio interzone at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 15:35:42 UTC 2019


I would assume mine is different from yours unless you're red/green
colorblind also.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:31 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could my red qualia be your green qualia? Maybe, but probably not as we're
> both of the same species; although with birds if might be different as they
> have 4 different types of color sensitive cone cells in their eyes not 3 as
> we do. On the other hand as long as there is consistency I'm not sure the
> question is even meaningful. For example, would the subjective experience
> of somebody who saw the world in black and white be different from somebody
> who saw the world in red and black? I don't think it would although we'll
> never know for sure.
>
> John K Clark
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