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Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Vsauce

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

34M views13 years ago2 recommendations

Brain and nervesNeuroscience

Michael Stevens explores the philosophy and neuroscience of perception, color vision, and the subjective nature of experience known as qualia.

Subscribe to Vsauce: bit.ly/POIaN7 Follow Michael Stevens: twitter.com/tweetsauce facebook.com/VsauceGaming All music by Jake Chudnow: youtube.com/jakechudnow Tommy Edison (Blind guy on YouTube): bit.ly/rjyX7q Color Blindness: colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/ and colorvisiontesting.com/what%20colorblind%20people%20see.htm Qualia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia We experiences are subjective: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_character_of_experience Explanatory Gap: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap Mary's Room and the Knowledge Argument: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument Who Asked the First Question? [PDF]: polyphony.ge/uploads/whoaskthefirst.pdf Theory of Mind and Sally-Anne Task: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind Koko the talking gorilla [VIDEO]: youtube.com/watch?v=Pmuu8UEi2ko Questioning Behaviour: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question Synesthesia coupled with color blindness: scholarpedia.org/article/Synesthesia#A_color_blind_synesthet… Do blind people DREAM images? www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/kerr_2004.html

Why it's here

2 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as an engaging explanation of qualia and the subjective nature of human sensory perception.

0xdeadb00fin Hacker News • Recommends

On “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: link to this video .

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On ““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: link to this video

mygoin Hacker News • Mentions

On “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 link to this video

danbrucin Hacker News • Mentions

On “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 link to this video