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Abstract:
Color experience is a microcosm of consciousness. In
particular, many of the deepest philosophical questions about
consciousness can be vividly illustrated in the case of
consciousness. Why do experiences of red and blue have the
particular subjective qualities (or qualia) that they do? Jackson
(1982) has argued that a neuroscientist with black-and-white vision
might know all the physical facts about color processing in the
brain and in the world, but would still not know what it is like to
have a red experience. If so, it seems that there might be a deep
explanatory gap between knowledge of physical facts and knowledge
of qualia.
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