In this philosophy, we only perceive “color” as a “special experience” because we do not realize that the same is true for all of our senses
Indeed, all of our senses, by definition, have qualia, and colour is just a particularly striking example. It is interesting, though, to note that not all brain tissue produces qualia: the cerebellum operates without them. Our motor control (what the cerebellum primarily does) proceeds without qualia—we have almost no awareness of what we are doing with individual muscles. This is why all forms of teaching people how to move, whether physiotherapy, dance training, martial arts, sports, and so on, make a lot of use of indirect visualisation to produce the desired results. (These can easily be mistaken, sometimes by the teachers themselves, for literal descriptions, e.g. of “chi” or “energy”.) Golfers are taught to “follow through”, even though nothing that happens after the moment of impact can have any effect on the ball. It is the intention to follow through that changes how the club is swung, and how it impacts the ball, in a way that could not be achieved by any more direct instruction.
Indeed, all of our senses, by definition, have qualia, and colour is just a particularly striking example. It is interesting, though, to note that not all brain tissue produces qualia: the cerebellum operates without them. Our motor control (what the cerebellum primarily does) proceeds without qualia—we have almost no awareness of what we are doing with individual muscles. This is why all forms of teaching people how to move, whether physiotherapy, dance training, martial arts, sports, and so on, make a lot of use of indirect visualisation to produce the desired results. (These can easily be mistaken, sometimes by the teachers themselves, for literal descriptions, e.g. of “chi” or “energy”.) Golfers are taught to “follow through”, even though nothing that happens after the moment of impact can have any effect on the ball. It is the intention to follow through that changes how the club is swung, and how it impacts the ball, in a way that could not be achieved by any more direct instruction.