No. As far as I’m concerned, that proves we do not all see the same colors.
My own favorite color has varied over my lifetime. I myself do not see “blue” and “green” in the same way I did forty years ago. Further, I generally find deep blues to be cool and soothing; but while the blue light from the sky does not bother me, the “blue” from “daylight” LED room lamps is piercing. The light from the blue LED pilot lamps on my computer and similar equipment is almost painful to me, despite being relatively deep—so much so that I had to cover them with white cloth tape blacked out with a felt tip marker to tone it down.
There’s a store i pass on my to work that I dislike because the red and blue LED display in its window fools me into thinking there’s a pack of police cars there.
Color is not just a spectroscopic reading to a conscious being. Color also carries emotional weight. Colors mean things to people.
Yeps. This feels like seeing one’s experience of color as all of the things it’s connected to. You’ve got a unique set of associations to diff colors, and that makes your experience different.
What I’ve seen of the “hard problem of consciousness” is that it says “well yeah, but all those associations, all of what a color means to you, that’s all separate from the qualia of the color”, and that is the thing that I think is divorced from interesting stuff. All the things you mentioned are the interesting parts of the experience of color.
Does everyone have the same “favorite color”?
No. As far as I’m concerned, that proves we do not all see the same colors.
My own favorite color has varied over my lifetime. I myself do not see “blue” and “green” in the same way I did forty years ago. Further, I generally find deep blues to be cool and soothing; but while the blue light from the sky does not bother me, the “blue” from “daylight” LED room lamps is piercing. The light from the blue LED pilot lamps on my computer and similar equipment is almost painful to me, despite being relatively deep—so much so that I had to cover them with white cloth tape blacked out with a felt tip marker to tone it down.
There’s a store i pass on my to work that I dislike because the red and blue LED display in its window fools me into thinking there’s a pack of police cars there.
Color is not just a spectroscopic reading to a conscious being. Color also carries emotional weight. Colors mean things to people.
Yeps. This feels like seeing one’s experience of color as all of the things it’s connected to. You’ve got a unique set of associations to diff colors, and that makes your experience different.
What I’ve seen of the “hard problem of consciousness” is that it says “well yeah, but all those associations, all of what a color means to you, that’s all separate from the qualia of the color”, and that is the thing that I think is divorced from interesting stuff. All the things you mentioned are the interesting parts of the experience of color.