Yes, colour is something we experience. — AJJ
And you wouldn’t answer in what sense you thought light refraction was the same as colour. — AJJ
Yes. That is the definition of a sense. — AJJ
do you think light refraction is the same as colour? — AJJ
If light refraction is different from the experience of colour, what makes a brain phenomenon the same as an experience of colour? — AJJ
The observation that redness is a quality that exists in the mind but not in the material world; that brain states do not exhibit redness, and that therefore the mind, which does exhibit redness to the person whose mind it is, must be different from the brain, and different from brain states. Brain states is a paraphrase of brain phenomena. This is one of the principle arguments against materialist theories of mind. — AJJ
The point being, it’s only in the mind that anything ever appears red — AJJ
Terrapin has simply been insisting without argument that the experience of colour and colour are distinct, — AJJ
Why then are our brain states identical to our experiences? — AJJ
What makes you think what is happening in the brain is identical to the experience, — AJJ
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