Activity

So it is so Hard to explain, according to you and Chalmers, how we are conscious of seeing red.   As young toddlers we have all the hardware to see red, (what you call having the neural activity for redness happen).  But toddlers cannot, as you say, have “the conscious experience of redness” until they have also achieved the requisite verbal behaviors, e.g., tacting (identifying) different things that are red, and developing at least a vestigial concept of colors.

Much of our consciousness behaviors are enhanced or are even dependent upon the development of our verbal behavior abilities.

(BTW, a verbal behavior in thinking (e.g., silently speaking to one’s self) has only a neural correlate.  But it is still behavior that is subject to the rules of behavior.) Anyway the toddler is 1st taught to identify and name “red” in items that have the color red.  Subsequently, the child can develop consciousness skills re: redness, e.g., she says to herself “Oh a red bow. how pretty.”