The Importance of Perceptual Experience

I became much more sympathetic to representationism about perceptual experience. When you have a colour experience, there's a sense in which there's nothing coloured in your experience. What's happening is you're on a state which represents the world as being a certain way. And if you think about experience that way, then you can see how you might respond to the Mary argument. But just because the cholia aren't doing anything, epi-phenomenal things don't do anything. They don't actually have a cause of power. So it shouldn't surprise you that they're not doing anything. It's just a bit awkward to know how you can know about them. That was the consideration