Thanks for this description. I’m interested in the phenomenology of red-green colorblind people, but I don’t think I completely get how it works yet for you. Questions I have
Do red and green, when you recognize them correctly, seem like subjectively very different colors?
If the answer is yes, if you’re shown one of the colors without context (e.g., in a lab setting), does it look red or green? (If the answer is no, I suppose this question doesn’t make sense.)
if you see two colors next to each other, then (if I understood you correctly), you can tell whether they’re (1) one green, one red or (2) the same color twice. How can you tell?
Yes, red and green seem subjectively very different—but only to conscious attention. A green object amid many red objects (or vice versa) does not grab my attention in the way that, e.g. a yellow object might.
When shown a patch of red-or-green in a lab setting, I see “Red” or “Green” seemingly at random.
If shown a red patch next to a green patch in a lab, I’ll see one “Red” and one “Green”, but it’s about 50:50 as to whether they’ll be switched or not. How does that work? I have no hypotheses that aren’t very low confidence. It seems as much a mystery to me as I infer it seems mysterious to you.
Thanks for this description. I’m interested in the phenomenology of red-green colorblind people, but I don’t think I completely get how it works yet for you. Questions I have
Do red and green, when you recognize them correctly, seem like subjectively very different colors?
If the answer is yes, if you’re shown one of the colors without context (e.g., in a lab setting), does it look red or green? (If the answer is no, I suppose this question doesn’t make sense.)
if you see two colors next to each other, then (if I understood you correctly), you can tell whether they’re (1) one green, one red or (2) the same color twice. How can you tell?
Yes, red and green seem subjectively very different—but only to conscious attention. A green object amid many red objects (or vice versa) does not grab my attention in the way that, e.g. a yellow object might.
When shown a patch of red-or-green in a lab setting, I see “Red” or “Green” seemingly at random.
If shown a red patch next to a green patch in a lab, I’ll see one “Red” and one “Green”, but it’s about 50:50 as to whether they’ll be switched or not. How does that work? I have no hypotheses that aren’t very low confidence. It seems as much a mystery to me as I infer it seems mysterious to you.