Hopefully by the next one I will have figured out what went wrong.
My hypothesis is that you picked a misleading example to make your point. Similar color illusions are discussed in, e.g., Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained”, where he discusses the kind of processing that the brain does to see color: they’re one of the best illustrations of how misleading the idea of so-called “qualia” is.
It looked like you didn’t really understand your main example. A and B are different colors, at least in terms of how the brain actually perceives color, and it sounded like you talked about them as if they were definitely the same. You wrote of the illusion as if it was mysterious and unexplained, when it has been used as a canonical demonstration of how consciousness works (Dennett’s book has something similar on the cover in one edition). This confusion made it hard for me to understand your main point.
My hypothesis is that you picked a misleading example to make your point. Similar color illusions are discussed in, e.g., Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained”, where he discusses the kind of processing that the brain does to see color: they’re one of the best illustrations of how misleading the idea of so-called “qualia” is.
It looked like you didn’t really understand your main example. A and B are different colors, at least in terms of how the brain actually perceives color, and it sounded like you talked about them as if they were definitely the same. You wrote of the illusion as if it was mysterious and unexplained, when it has been used as a canonical demonstration of how consciousness works (Dennett’s book has something similar on the cover in one edition). This confusion made it hard for me to understand your main point.