https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
Do You think this might solve the consciousness problem? The more I think about it the more accurate and true it seems. Reading up and watching stuff about IIT makes me understand how sometimes the questions we ask about our conscious experiences are just bad question.
In this theory (to the degree I understand it) "blue" (as the visual experience if the color blue) is "blue", because it's sort of like a data point in the structure of your consciousness that cannot be further reduced. You feel like this answer is very insufficient, because "blue" certainly "feels" like something. But than the problem is that as you try to instinctively grasp what "blue" is exactly, you just end up adding more higher-level concepts on top of it (photons / wavelengths / the word BLUE / coldness / sky etc.). But maybe it is just a trap of our perception. Maybe "blue" is just a data point that cannot be reduced any further, that is "blue" simply because within this data set/neural structure it is not red or yellow.