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Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Name: Is Your Red The Same as My Red?
Description: 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.

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

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.

“Vsauce did a good video on it” (HN, 2020)

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@0xdeadb00f Aug 2019 Recommends

on HN thread 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: [this video] .

Explains what qualia is

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@behindsight Jun 2020 Recommends

on HN thread “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: [this video]

Good video on qualia and subjective color

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@danbruc Sep 2024 Cites it

on HN thread 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] [this video]

Whether your blue might be like my red

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@mygo Nov 2018 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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 [this video]

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