Michael Tye comments that, “Viewers of [a] painting can learn not only its content… but also the colors, shapes, and spatial relationships that obtain between the paint stains on the canvas." In this sense, qualia explain how humans can understand and recognize images in everyday life. If a person who had never seen a tree before was shown a drawing of a brown rectangle with a circle green attached on top, the image would be foreign and unrecognizable. However, if a person had seen a tree before and received the same drawing, they would recognize the general shape and colors of the image and assume that it was a tree and to distinct and subjective qualia experiences, the images become recognizable and organized in the