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Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Vsauce · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Consciousness & cognitionPhilosophy & ethicsNeuroscience & the brain

What it is

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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “wondering what "qualia" actually is, I found an old episode of VSause about it”

    Explains what qualia is

    0xdeadb00f, 2019-08 · Recommendation · in “Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?”

  2. “Vsauce did a good video on it”

    Good video on qualia and subjective color

    behindsight, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in ““You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: qualia, color perception, philosophy of mind, marys room, subjective experience

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