You doubt that people can talk objectively and confidently about this, but then it seems like you conclude (implicitly or not) that we should therefore stick to the default of assuming everyone's experience is the same (and therefore the same as yours, btw). Alternatively you could take the difficulty of communication as a sign that we have at least just that much leeway concerning the difference between each others' experience.
You are skeptical when people say they have an internal monologue. Those without internal monologue would be skeptical when you say you do have an internal monologue. Your confidence is also based on nothing more than your personal experience + bias.
PS I firmly doubt those "swapped colour experience" ideas make any sense at all. Probably the thing that is assumed to be flipped is just that part of the experience that only seems to exist as an absolute, yet is actually not defined at all beyond its relations to other experiences.
I wasn't trying to convey that conclusion. I'm skeptical at people's confidence; I'm not confident that they're wrong. I think they discount how big a factor the difficulty in communication is.
On internal monologue, I said the opposite. I'm skeptical when people say things like "I also don't have an internal monologue. I don't passively think thoughts. I have to actively think everything."[1] I have a reason for this beyond personal experience and bias: that it's easy to be shockingly wrong in this direction. For example, many people will think they can count 60 breaths without being distracted by thoughts, only to find it impossible when they try and pay close attention.
Maybe the swapped color was a bad example. I just mean any direct comparison of qualia in different minds which is impossible to do, and therefore pointless to talk about.
[1] The first Reddit post I found searching for "no inner monologue"
You are skeptical when people say they have an internal monologue. Those without internal monologue would be skeptical when you say you do have an internal monologue. Your confidence is also based on nothing more than your personal experience + bias.
PS I firmly doubt those "swapped colour experience" ideas make any sense at all. Probably the thing that is assumed to be flipped is just that part of the experience that only seems to exist as an absolute, yet is actually not defined at all beyond its relations to other experiences.