Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Open Peer Commentary
Palmer: Color and consciousness

How to compare color sensations in different brains


Werner Backhaus a1
a1 Theoretical and Experimental Biology, Department of Biology, WE 05, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany backhaus@zedat.fu-berlin.de www.fu-berlin.de/backhaus

Abstract

The qualitative and quantitative properties of color sensations and neuronal color coding are discussed in relation to physiological color exchanges and their evolutionary constraints. Based on the identity mind/matter thesis, additional physical measurements on color sensations are described that will allow us, at least in principle, to compare the qualitative properties of color sensations in different brains.