durangodawood
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Intersubjectivity only works for consistency of color experience. There is no intersubjective communication possible for what the color you experience actually looks like to you. It seems like you think so too.Through intersubjective communication, I suspect that we all suspect that our experience of "red" independent of cars and apples are much the same. If we were able to neutralize confounding variables (like when statisticians control for income and race and gender, etc.), and we saw that the exact (for some useful degree of exactness) same areas of the brain were lit to the same degrees of intensity, etc., we might reasonably conclude that we all experience red the same way--At least the "we" that don't suppose some sort of mind-body duality.
I rather suspect that it won't be that and we'll be left wondering how "durangodawood experiences red". I think either answer is interesting. But as I said earlier, as long as we can meaningfully communicate about "red" it's not that important. But I'm shortsighted; there may be consequences and implications whatever the answer that I can't foresee.
I agree similarity of experience among people seems like a reasonable assumption, just because multiple instances of the same process in any arena generally produce similar results.
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