Spinning_Sandwich comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong
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You'll notice that the next few sentences of my post address this same idea for fully functional members of different species. But it doesn't technically refute the claim for qualia, only that we're not all equally responsive to the same stimuli.
It is, for example, technically possible (in the broadest sense) that color-blind people experience the same qualia we do, but they are unable to act on them, much in the same way that a friend with ADD might experience the same auditory stimuli I do, but then is too distracted to actually notice or make sense of it.
I note, however, that the physical differences in color-blindness (or different species' eyes) are enough reason to lend little credibility to this idea.