I regret saying color was the optimal encoding. It's an optimal encoding. Also only for our visual instruments, required operations AND cognitive capacity. Diff

I regret saying color was the optimal encoding. It's an optimal encoding. Also only for our visual instruments, required operations AND cognitive capacity. Different organisms likely have different sensations. I suspect consciousness is some form of self awareness. Our internal model of space is likely an aspect of this. Many/most organisms lack the neurology for this sort of modeling. They may still have consciousness in some form but I'm afraid to speculate about what it looks like. I'd want to see the Turing Test neural net compared to an ant neural net. That's the most apples to apples analysis I can think of. We can't cheat with awareness of our own subjectivity if we want to understand ourselves. We're never going to be ants. We will never know anything about color. Only how many frequencies and amplitudes of it different humans can detect.