Seeing red

[The Grand Nudger]

So what I was suggesting was that perhaps the way we experience consciousness is the only way it could be to accommodate the different variable states that need to represented but at the same time maintain the similarities and relationships between variables. That consciousness as an emergent property of the system/brain (rather than designed) is in the business of representing the differences between variable states whilst maintaining their relationships and similarities, in the only way it can. That a system with different variable states to integrate would find a different perceptional state that met the constraints.

Provisional certainty, lol, Emjay.  Provisional.  "If" - 'then".  

The only way it could be, with reference to our perceptive apparatus and the nature of that which we percieve..or the only way it could be in toto..as in all perception of consciousness everywhere must be like our own?  Just looking for clarity so I don't fly off on a tangent.

RE: the bunnies..I don't know how I would defend the statement that enhancing the range of their color vision amounts to a whole new form of perception, personally.  It doesn;t seem to have added a whole new form of perception...I was under the impression that rabbits could already see...and indeed could already see in color.