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by JulianMorrison 3588 days ago
They're separate, of course. People tend to over-attribute things to their consciousness. Blue is an analysis and categorization being done by the visual processing part of your brain. That part of your brain is grown by basically the same genes as everyone else's. It would be more surprising if it wasn't similar in operation.

Your subjectivity is your brain is you. But only tiny scraps of it are consciously accessible. Nearly all of it just does, it doesn't reflect on the doing. You only notice your visual processing when you force it to glitch or strain with optical illusions and the like.