“I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on . . . reside in consciousness. Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.” Galileo denied that our perceptions of tastes, odors, and colors are genuine insights into objective tastes, odors, and colors. There are, he claimed, no tastes, odors, or colors in objective reality. These are just features of our perceptions. Galileo got the message, took a giant leap in
