I always thought it was crazy to wonder what the qualia of colors we can’t see but other animals can is. It’s sort of like being a cat or some other animal with limited color vision and trying to imagine what humans see. How would you prove to a cat that those colors exist?
There’s a great old Vsauce video that goes over something like this but even crazier to think about: “is your red the same as my red?”.
How can you know if your red is the same color as what someone else calls red? We could both be looking at different colors, but we both call it red.
Even crazier, how do you explain colors to someone born blind?
I’m a physicist and no, color is not a physical property of light. Color is a subjective experience created by our mind in response to electrical signals from our eyes.
Colors don’t exist in the physical world. Yellow is just how our brain intreprets a certain wavelenght of light. The qualia of it exists only in your consciousness.
I always thought it was crazy to wonder what the qualia of colors we can’t see but other animals can is. It’s sort of like being a cat or some other animal with limited color vision and trying to imagine what humans see. How would you prove to a cat that those colors exist?
There’s a great old Vsauce video that goes over something like this but even crazier to think about: “is your red the same as my red?”. How can you know if your red is the same color as what someone else calls red? We could both be looking at different colors, but we both call it red. Even crazier, how do you explain colors to someone born blind?
Colors don’t actually exist physically. They are a creation of the mind.
Colors are physical wavelengths of light within a spectrum between UV and IR. WTF are you talking about.
I’m a physicist and no, color is not a physical property of light. Color is a subjective experience created by our mind in response to electrical signals from our eyes.
Colors don’t exist in the physical world. Yellow is just how our brain intreprets a certain wavelenght of light. The qualia of it exists only in your consciousness.