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Physical cause and sensation
ConceptThe physical process causing an experience is distinct from the experience itself.
Explanation or usage
A physical description of light concerns measurable processes, while a color experience is what seeing is like for a perceiver. Describing a physical cause does not make that description identical to the experience. A light wave is not itself a conscious color experience.
Common misunderstandings
A color sensation literally is a wave traveling through space.
In The Problems of Philosophy
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Distinguish a physical description of light from the experience of seeing it; historical ether theory is not current physics.