(2024-10-20, 04:16 AM)Valmar Wrote: How would he explain experiences where colour-blind people, on psychedelics, report seeing the colour they are normally blind to? There is no clear or obvious physical cause here making the eyes temporarily able to "sense" that colour, or at least, send any sort of signal relating to it.
Isn't it open to him on the "filter" metaphor I suggested to say that the psychedelics temporarily remove that filter? Yes, it's again unclear how to cash out the metaphor, but this does seem open to him if we accept that metaphor in the first place.
(2024-10-20, 04:16 AM)Valmar Wrote: My current understanding is that the incarnate individual unconsciously has all of the knowledge of how the corporeal form is supposed to function, and what does what and so on, including how the optic nerves correspond to the perceptions of colour. In this model, if something about the optic nerve isn't quite in accordance with the incarnate individual's unconscious knowledge, then it just does with what it knows. A sort of deeper-than-instinctual knowledge prior to behaviour that has to do with how to actually make a physical form function.
I'm not 100% sure I understand your model, but I'm curious in any case to know how it explains how psychedelics temporarily unblind a colour-blind person.