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Tentatively, my gut reactions are:
(4) It is easy to see how "red" could be computed in that sense. The OP clearly thinks it is difficult, so presumably had another sense in mind.
If so, further elaboration would be helpful.
Well, the existence of qualia is a classic objection to computationalism and physicalism, and red is the classic quale.
I was talking about the experiential phenomenon of seeing redness.