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Certain patterns of neuronal excitations feel like green from the inside. I don't understand this well enough to write a conscious computer program, but neither does anyone else (thank Bayes). I do believe that such a computer program can be written, and if that can be shown to be impossible, I will reconsider my position here (conversely, it seems that you must hold that no such computer program can be written).
It may happen that "nothing is actually green at any level of reality", and in that case, I still say that certain patterns of neuronal excitations feel like green from the inside, even if it's an illusion.
"Certain patterns of neuronal excitations feel like green from the inside."
If patterns are not a fundamental part of reality, but merely the mind's mapping of an uncaring territory, why should patterns feel anything from the inside, as opposed to being felt merely from the outside?
By saying that patterns feels something from the inside, you seem to claim that patterns are a part of reality that isn't merely the sum of their parts.
The patterns are an organization of reality that has higher-level meaning to our minds. The meaning, as with everything, is in the interpretation, not the physical atoms.