Oblivion wrote:heehe. that's research.
Here's a thought. Haven't anyone of you thought that maybe we don't see the same colors at all? What I may call as Blue may still be called blue by you, but is actually what is red to my vision. That was confusing. :?
You might want to research quale. The thought you had is a rather old one; I personally consider the first encounter of the quale problem to be Empedokles' solution to the contradiction of Parmenides (nothing can change) and Herkalit (everything changes). With his theory of four elements which are unchangeable, but can combine in different quantities and qualities to form all a posteriori experience, and his subsequent finding that, if his theory holds true, the eye is made of the same substances and perceives the quality of the substances in any given object, but does not transcend it's foundation in the natural (4-substance-built) world, he, unintendedtly, raised the question of the "realness" of perception. Or at least that's what I thought.
Anyways, start with Locke, Descartes and Hume for the first signs of a real quale debate. Then Leibniz. Concerning more recent work, Dennett considers qualia to be a meaningless word, but has met staunch critique. McGinn considers qualia one of the problems which are, in principle, unsolveable. Minsky also had something to say about quale if I remember correctly. Wikipedia may have an article to start with.
HTH
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