Seeing red

[The Grand Nudger]

It does..you've clearly never tripped.......

I'm not talking about seeing a rainbow where there's no rainbow.  I'm talking about colors that have no correlate in the real world.  Have you experienced such a thing, say on LSD?  I've experienced synethesia, but even then, sounds were represented in the normal ol' selection of colors.

Why would I..how would I know what they look like?  I don't have the ability to perceive such colors.  That's not something eyes can do.

The latter.  Why wouldn't brain damage (or even just random brain fluctuations) cause the perception of real-world-impossible qualia, like colors that don't exist, or like flashes of another sense that humans don't have?

Brain damage -does- give us experiences of things that don't exist, and things we couldn't perceive, such as the idea that we can hear the thoughts of others.  It doesn't seem as though it's capable of granting us new sensory capabilities.  I don't know what you expect, and I don't think you see how absurd the question you're asking is.  Hell, everytime you've asked a question along the lines of things you're yet to grasp about this position it's been an easily equivocated one. I'm starting to think you have a problem.

This question is -truly- no different that "why doesn't brain damage give me the ability to see in the infrared?"

Hmmm. . . maybe it does, hey?

Does it?