TheAncientGeek comments on How do you notice when you are ignorant of necessary alternative hypotheses? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Train a blind from birth person in your technique.
Hand them a braille readout of the neural activity of someone looking at a tomato.
Would they now know how red the things look to a sighted person?
Yes, they could easily tell the distribution of color receptor activation.
Not what I asked.
Then what are you asking. Please, precisely define what it would mean to "know how red the things look".
Look at a tomato.
That's how a red thing looks.