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Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Is Your Red The Same as My Red? on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2018–2024.

Vsauce

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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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

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“Vsauce did a good video on it”
— behindsight, Jun 2020, in ““You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)”

What HN commenters said

4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

behindsightJun 2020Recommends

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

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

0xdeadb00fAug 2019Recommends

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

in “Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?” · View on HN

danbrucSep 2024Cites it

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

in “Is My Blue Your Blue?” · View on HN

mygoNov 2018Joke

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

in “Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Consciousness & cognitionPhilosophy & ethicsNeuroscience & the brainqualiacolor perceptionphilosophy of mindmarys roomsubjective experience