Earlier you wrote,"These perceptions are not purely subjective. They reflect something about an object that is not just an arbitrary creation of the brain, like color."
Do you disagree that the world consists of objects is an artifact of our perception?
Also if you read carefully you will find that my question is about the experience and not about objects.
So please reply to the question which I asked.
You said, "Take two humans. Show them a color.
They will give that color a label.
But giving an experienced color a label tells us nothing about the experience. Just calling it the same thing in no way implies they are experiencing the same thing."
I think you are right here.
You said...
"It is impossible to look at another animal's subjective experience."
Is it impossible to look at another human's subjective experience?
(I am not saying that you are right or wrong, I am merely trying to understand your thinking as it seems to me a promising line of Inquiry)
J842P wrote: "No. That the world consists of objects is an artifact of our perception. Underlying physical reality is there, but the mapping to "objects" is done by our perception."
I think that the world consists of objects is an artifact of our perception. Further, I think that...
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