#RandomThoughts #ColorPerception #MindBlown
🎨 Have you ever stopped to think about what colors really look like? We all see the world through our own unique lenses, but have you ever considered that someone else might see the color blue as your version of green? 🤯 Sit tight as we journey through the fascinating world of color perception and random thoughts.
Is our perception of color the same?
Our brains interpret colors based on the wavelengths of light that objects reflect. But what if someone’s brain processes those wavelengths differently? 🧐 Some individuals may have color vision deficiencies, altering how they see certain colors. Just imagine the endless possibilities! 🔮
Real-life example:
Think of the infamous dress debate from a few years back. Was it blue and black or white and gold? People saw it differently, sparking conversations and debates worldwide. It goes to show just how subjective color perception can be. 🤔
The wonder of colorblindness
Approximately 8% of men and 0.5% of women experience some form of color blindness. This condition, also known as color vision deficiency, can range from difficulty distinguishing certain shades to seeing the world in shades of gray. How mind-boggling is that? 🌈
Fun fact:
People with color blindness often excel in other areas, such as creativity and problem-solving, showcasing the uniqueness and diversity of human perception. 🌟
Embrace the beauty of diversity
Instead of getting caught up in what colors really look like, let’s celebrate the diversity of our perceptions. Our individual experiences shape how we see the world, adding depth and richness to our lives. 🌺 So next time you gaze at a beautiful sunset or a vibrant painting, remember that everyone sees it in their special way.
In conclusion, the next time you ponder the colors of the world, remember that we can’t really confirm what colors look like because it’s all in our minds. Embrace the randomness, the diversity, and the wonder of color perception, and let your thoughts wander into the infinite possibilities of the human mind. 🌈 #StayCurious #EmbraceDifferences #ColorfulWorld
The Hard Problem of Consciousness, but I prefer The Hard Problem of Matter.
You all need to shut up. I bet you’re not even partially colorblind. Posers.🤨
This reminds me of “kids describe color to a blind person”
As somebody completely colorblind, I agree with this. My green is not your green.
Light doesn’t inherently “look” like anything, so there’s really nothing to confirm. Colors are just concepts invented by our brains to assign meaning to light of certain wavelengths. It’s like if I drew a picture of a fictional object and asked 2 people to name it separately. Their names will most likely be different, and there’s no way to objectively “confirm” what the object should actually be called.
But yes, it’s possible that our brains have invented different colors for the same wavelengths. But it also goes further than that. You might perceive red the same way I perceive blue (the classic talking point). But you could also perceive light in the same way I perceive sound (or touch, smell, etc). Or you could perceive light with sensations that I can’t even comprehend. We will never know.
My personal theory is that we all have the same favorite color we just don’t know it
When I built my tiny house I knew that we had put in white sink tub and toilet. It looked sort of off white to ecru to me.
Then I had one cataract done, and was so thrown off. Every thing through the new lens was whiter than snow. Through the undone one it was ecru.
I guess I didn’t really know colors at all.
Actually, I can confirm that red looks red.
My daughter said this to me yesterday. Your green could be my purple.
There is one thing that always made me believe we all see similiar colors. It’s that people can judge them. For example say “how this neon is bright, almost kills my eyes”. Also if we saw different colors some will blend and gradients wouldn’t work.
Vsauce did a video on this
We can confirm it is the same wavelength hitting your retina which activates photoreceptors called cones that come in shades of green red and blue to produce color. So color is not even real until it is generated by your body. It’s like the old saying, does a tree falling over in the forest make a sound if there is nobody to hear it? No, it just produces sound waves, but you’d need a tympanic membrane to vibrate
So THIS is an original shower thought, but literally everything I post immediately gets rejected by the bot for being unoriginal?
We can’t confirm what any experience feels like
🔴 this is my red. I don’t know what your red looks like but I know that this is my red 🔴
Not only that, but colors are something our brains have totally made up. They’re not even real. When your eyes get hit with photons that wiggle in a certain way, your brain creates an image with a color based on how wiggly it is. This helps to interpret things, make sense of the world, and survive. Physics can describe the properties of light that we perceive as different colors, but physics does not require that colors actually exist.
It’s only because we’ve evolved to see light in a certain spectrum that we have a concept of colors. You wouldn’t say a magnetic field or a gamma ray or an echo has a color, but if it was evolutionarily advantageous for you to be highly attuned to those things, maybe your brain would assign a color and an “image” of those things.
Sounds like you just discovered the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Time for you to look up David Chalmers
How do you know that your sense of smell isn’t another’s vision 🤔
All of reality is mediated
The wild one is that colors of light are well known and well established. A frequency defines a particular color of light. As an aside – very few of those frequencies are actually visible light, the full ‘electromagnetic spectrum’ includes light with much lower frequencies (infrared, microwaves) and much, much higher (ultraviolet, X-rays, Gamma rays).
However, what’s wild is how our brains translate those frequencies of light into color.
There is a VSauce video on this very topic.
And the idea of perception being subjective can provoke super intense reactions and emotions in people.
The arguments that broke out (still break out!) over “The Dress” show how unsettling it is to have what seems like a shared objective reality ripped away from us
They are all numbers to me #AACCDD
We might all perceive it differently, but colours have objective verifiable factors. So ultimately we are all seeing the same colours, even if they subjectively appear differently to us
Or what sounds sound like
I think there are some studies on this. But yea, I believe we are all able to categorize and recognise different colours across the spectrum, although not necessarily they will be exactly the same for all human beings.
I’ve thought this for a while. We may all be seeing different things, but have learned to call those things the same thing.