Sorry, I wasn’t clear, the analogy I have in mind for color vision is trying to explain red to someone who lives in a black-and-white-world and doesn’t have any experience of color at all.
I don’t know how much it matters, but I think you’re generalizing from fictional evidence here, in the following sense: If someone truly had no experience of colour, I do not expect that showing them red objects would likely give them much idea of what the experience of seeing red things is like for people who have lived with colour vision all their lives. (Compare those experiments in which cats were raised with no horizontal lines in their environment and grew up insensitive to horizontal features.)
Sorry, I wasn’t clear, the analogy I have in mind for color vision is trying to explain red to someone who lives in a black-and-white-world and doesn’t have any experience of color at all.
I don’t know how much it matters, but I think you’re generalizing from fictional evidence here, in the following sense: If someone truly had no experience of colour, I do not expect that showing them red objects would likely give them much idea of what the experience of seeing red things is like for people who have lived with colour vision all their lives. (Compare those experiments in which cats were raised with no horizontal lines in their environment and grew up insensitive to horizontal features.)