>>11640338Fine.
It is a category error to claim that the experience of a qualia (whether it be beauty or color or texture) is equivalent to a material or physical causal relation.
Saying "stabbing you in the gut causes you to feel pain" does NOT explain or define what the actual FEELING of pain is. Saying "pain is an electrochemical reaction in the nervous system of an organize" is NOT what the actual FEELING of pain is, and conflating these two things is a category error isomorphic to claiming that a normative statement is equivalent to an empirical one.
This is what is meant by the transcendental. It is obviously the case that pain, and red, and a soft texture, have their ORIGIN in a material structure - however this does not and never will imply that it is the subjective qualitative EXPERIENCE of the structure. These are not reducible to each other and never will be.
You can completely map out the physical electrical pattern in the brain of a person when they see the color 'RED" and that still is NOT the actual experience of the color red, and never will be. To conflate the two is, objectively, a category error.
