Do we see the same red? New qualia structure paradigm measures shared sensory experiences

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March 7, 2025, 6:03 PM

• •A team of psychologists, bioengineers and neurologists tested the possibility of using a qualia structure paradigm to understand whether sensory experiences are intersubjectively equivalent.
• •The researchers found striking similarities between the volunteers in their perception of a given color compared to other colors.
• •They acknowledge that their experiment did not prove that people see the same things when looking at different colors, just that it shows that they probably do.

A team of researchers has tested the possibility of using a qualia structure paradigm to understand whether sensory experiences are intersubjectively equivalent. They found striking similarities between the volunteers in their perception of a given color compared to other colors. This adds credence to theories suggesting that most people probably have the same sensory experience when looking at a given color.

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