[piker]

> First-person conscious experiences. Pain is a qualia. The way the color blue looks, as opposed to say the color red or green, is a qualia. The sensation of hot or cold is a qualia. When someone stubs their toe and says "ow", you can infer that they're in pain based on their behavior and your knowledge of how pain works, but you can't actually feel or directly observe their pain. That's the "first-person" part.

So cool! I’ve always felt there was something really interesting about the idea that someone might internalize the color blue as I see the color red. I know we can define the colors mathematically, but I never knew the term for that subjective interpretive difference—qualia.

[Jevon23]

>I’ve always felt there was something really interesting about the idea that someone might internalize the color blue as I see the color red.

Yes! In fact, philosophers have spent a lot of time thinking about this exact problem:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-inverted/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/

[mellosouls]

It's a fascinating rabbit-hole, here's one jumping in point...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/