It's like, hey man, how do we know that the orange that you see is the same as the orange that I see, what if what's orange to you is more like green to me? Maybe we can solve the problem of the qualia by asking some color-sound synesthesiacs what orange sounds like; if they all say that orange sounds like a middle C on a Hammond Organ, then maybe orange is the same for everyone. Bad poets love to use a good simile to convey their subjective mind-states, why can't scientists do the same?
We could take it one step further and ask some sound-taste synesthesiacs what different musics taste like, perhaps you'd hear them say, "yes, Ke$ha's voice tastes like shit, then again, I like the taste of shit."
Even her handwriting is deliberately awful.
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