# How Does Colour experience represent the world **Opening (not a real abstract):** Many favour representationa/is,n about colour experience. To a first approximation, this view holds that experiencing is like believing. In particular, like believing, experiencing is a matter of representing the world to be a certain way. Once you view colour experience along these lines, you face a big question: do our colour experiences represent the world as it really is? For instance, suppose you see a tomato. Representationaiists claim that having an experience with this sensory character is necessarily connected with representing a distinctive quality as pervading a round area out there in external space. Let us call it "sensible redness" to highlight the fact that the representation of this property is necessarily connected with the sensory character of the experience. Is this property, sensible **Authors:** [[pautz]]