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This person doesn't understand color theory, and light. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Jesus christ, this site just goes completely downhill when anything philosophical is involved.

We aren’t talking about the physical stimulus itself! We are talking about subjective internal experience! Just because the same area of the brain correlates to a specific color or whatever doesn’t mean you experience the same thing. Hard problem of consciousness

Not even taking into consideration the STEMlord hurr-durr philosophy is useless takes.

Once again for emphasis:

THE STIMULUS IS NOT THE SAME THING AS YOUR EXPERIENCE OF IT

People may very well experience the same color differently, and we would have no way of knowing. There will always be a subjective gap that can’t be bridged. We see the same wavelength but we cannot know if we experience it the same way. Color theory and the physics of light is completely irrelevant here.

It’s not that you see red as blue; you see blue as blue, that’s not the argument here. Everyone sees blue as blue. We just might not have the same subjective experience of it. This is like baby level philosophy shit, I would have thought it would be quite simple to understand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i dont think you are engaging with the actual thinking going on and instead are being like "but what about the fact that we can never truly know anyone else!!!" it's easy to understand. light is a phenomena that is pretty well explained in physics and with other "philosophical" or logical evidence. we're not all seeing different shit even if it's interesting to think about

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I had a terrible night’s sleep so I’m gonna be grumpy here

Read my comment again. It is literally not possible to prove this either way, that’s the whole point.

wall-talk

Yes, you are seeing the exact same wavelength as everyone else. No, this has nothing to do with the argument. No amount of incessantly pointing to the physics of the stimulus is going to resolve the question.

I don’t think you understand that this has literally nothing to do with the physics of light. It’s honestly amazing that you point to this even after the countless clarifications that that is not the point of the discussion. No one is questioning the physics of light. We could perfectly well be seeing different shit. Consciousness and subjective experience, one of the greatest enigmas to this day, it’s anything but understood. Color is just a proxy for this discussion. You could make it about sound or pain or basically anything.the question is “do we have the same sensory experience for the same stimulus”? You can explain the physics of light every step of the way and it wouldn’t even touch on subjective experience.

In summary:

Is the physics of light well understood?

Yes.

Are our eyes physically structured basically identically?

Yes.

Is the stimulus, physically speaking, a constant for both observers?

Yes.

Are the physical properties of the light hitting the retina the same for both?

Yes.

Is our internal sensory perception universal?

I don’t know, and if you do, you should get it published and live off the coattails of one of the greatest achievements in scientific history for the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

da physics of the eye is also da same and our brains are all built roughly the same so whateva

[–] KairuByte 1 points 2 years ago

I don’t have a dog in this race, but wanted to point out that colorblind people exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If we perceive senses the same way, why do some people disagree about what colors go together or if something tastes good?

If the internal experience of the sense is the same, why would anyone have different tastes?

When people like different things, is it entirely arbitrary? Or is it because they perceive the internal sensation differently?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I didn’t know we were relitigating this, but this is a philosophical concept that is related to physics but which cannot be explained by it, not because of anything supernatural, but because that’s how language works