I tend to think that, regardless of which camp is correct, it’s unlikely that the difference is due to different experiences, and more likely that one of the two sides is making a philosophical error. Reason being that experience itself is a low-level property, whereas judgments about experience are a high-level property, and it generally seems to be the case that the variance in high-level properties is way way higher.
E.g., it’d be pretty surprising if someone claimed that red is more similar to green than to orange, but less surprising if they had a strange idea about the meaning of life, and that’s pretty much true regardless of what exactly they think about the meaning of life. We’ve just come to expect that pretty much any high-level opinion is possible.
I tend to think that, regardless of which camp is correct, it’s unlikely that the difference is due to different experiences, and more likely that one of the two sides is making a philosophical error. Reason being that experience itself is a low-level property, whereas judgments about experience are a high-level property, and it generally seems to be the case that the variance in high-level properties is way way higher.
E.g., it’d be pretty surprising if someone claimed that red is more similar to green than to orange, but less surprising if they had a strange idea about the meaning of life, and that’s pretty much true regardless of what exactly they think about the meaning of life. We’ve just come to expect that pretty much any high-level opinion is possible.