Humans (or at least I) have different feelings and perceptions of red and green. We have no idea how similar those feelings are between different humans. I have no basis for imagining what it would be like if my visual experience of red and green were swapped, but NOT my actual sensory inputs (same wavelength, same frontline receptor activations).
I can imagine related things, but they don’t tell me much about consciousness. I can imagine a universe where things I expect to be red are actually reflecting green light. I can imaging if English had evolved with different color words for things that parents point to as “red” and “green”, I can imagine calling a lime “red” and a ripe tomato “green”.
I guess I can imagine either of those things and call it “imagining different qualia”, but I don’t really think I’m doing that. I’m imagining something far simpler.
Humans (or at least I) have different feelings and perceptions of red and green. We have no idea how similar those feelings are between different humans. I have no basis for imagining what it would be like if my visual experience of red and green were swapped, but NOT my actual sensory inputs (same wavelength, same frontline receptor activations).
I can imagine related things, but they don’t tell me much about consciousness. I can imagine a universe where things I expect to be red are actually reflecting green light. I can imaging if English had evolved with different color words for things that parents point to as “red” and “green”, I can imagine calling a lime “red” and a ripe tomato “green”.
I guess I can imagine either of those things and call it “imagining different qualia”, but I don’t really think I’m doing that. I’m imagining something far simpler.