Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Vsauce2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
34M views · explainer · evergreen · Uploaded 2013-02-17

Vsauce explores qualia and whether different people experience colors the same way. It draws on color blindness, Mary's room, the explanatory gap and subjective experience.

HN points people to it as an accessible explanation of what qualia are.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@mygo2018 · in “Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court”

well different people have different retinas, how are you going to make sure there is a universally agreed representation, of a colored trademark =p [VIDEO]

@0xdeadb00f2019 · in “Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?”

For anyone who read this comment and was wondering what "qualia" actually is, I found an old episode of VSause about it: [VIDEO] .

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@behindsight2020 · in ““You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)”

You might be interested in the concept of qualia [0] Vsauce did a good video on it, "Is Your Red The Same as My Red?" [1] 0: [LINK] 1: [VIDEO]

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@danbruc2024 · in “Is My Blue Your Blue?”

I expected this to be about the question whether your perception of blue might be like my perception of red. [1] [1] [VIDEO]