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This is a deep philosophical question that gets to the heart of what it is to experience - when it comes to the brains perceptions around colour however we can
by robbiep 3y ago
This is a deep philosophical question that gets to the heart of what it is to experience - when it comes to the brains perceptions around colour however we can be relatively confident that the wetwear processing results in the same result, assuming the same input capabilities. (Side note - I spent a lot of time arguing this with my medical school ophthalmologists and neurologists, which is why I have confidence in this particular result)
This is because it isn’t a single photoreceptor picking up, say, 320nm light. Instead you have a range of essentially analog responses across the red, green and blue spectrums, that the brain reconstructs into true colour as we perceive it.
Those with different receiving capabilities (on the one extreme: tetrachromia - those with 4 different colour sensors, who are exclusively women, because they’re on the C chromosome - and on the other end, those with cataracts - witness monet’s later life paintings) help to demonstrate the consistency with which the brain is able to achieve a similar qualia from the underlying stochastic impulses