"We are so biologically similar among ourselves, however, that we consctruct similar neural patterns for the same thing. It should not be surprising that similar images arise out of those similar neural patterns. That is why we can accept, without protest, the conventional idea that each of us has formed in our minds the reflected picture of some particular thing. In reality we did not" (Looking for Spinoza, p. 200).
Last sentence sounds like Stephen Dedalus on aesthetics!
His idea is that we each see a unique world according to how our body responds to things. We all have a quite similar (though ultimately unique) response, similar enough for us to agree on one reality.
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