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This is an instance of the fallacy described in Explaining vs Explaining Away. Color can be explained by neuroscience and physics, but it can't explain color away because it's still there after you learn what underlies it. You don't have to modify physics to make color real, because it's already real, as an abstraction layered on top of physics.
Mitchell did acknowledge the existence of the identity view.