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Bardy said:
So my point was; we may very well all experience something different when we see red, but because our experience of that colour has always been the same, and we’ve learned to call it “red”, we can all agree only on the fact that we assign the noun “red” to that particular experience.
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You make good sense generally, but I think you didn't quite think this through.
So I did it for you, and I couldn't find one argument to prove that we don't see red exactly the same way as everyone else. With maybe slight room for psychological variations.
It's actually not a hard trick for our brains to fix it so we all experience the exact same colors in our minds.
But I do wonder how we came to interpret a signal as red, when the color red doesn't really exist outside of our minds.
But I do think there are very subtle changes in how red is seen, but not usually noticable to even ourselves when it's happening to us.
There is a big difference between things you can measure and things like the mind that you can't. The mind has trouble making accurate measurements of reality, from one person to the next.
But our eyes are very well built tools for measuring ligh signals, so of course they are very accurate and identical to one another.
The eye is not a proper tool for making other measurements though
Like how far away a tree is.
We have depth perception, but guessing how far a distance is will very in accuracy from person to person and for of different reasons.
The things in our reality, that we can all actually agree on, are limited, and the accuracy is completely dependent on the tools we have.
The mind is a good tool, but it doesn't deal in accurate measurements and perseptions.
So we are left with only our 11 senses.
The six that we are aware of and the five that we are not aware of.
And they are all precisely tuned as highly specialized measuring tools, and will give identical readings from one person to the next, but our minds are a very different tool, and they don't work off of standardized units of measure like our scenes do.
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