like as a physical property. i don't know any color-ology maybe there's a simple way to make me get it but

IT SEEMS like color depends entirely on BRIGHTNESS so an OBJECT can't have a fixed COLOR because BRIGHTNESS changes all the time!

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It's genuinely mindblowing shit.

    Linguistics and language are seriously fucking powerful and I suspect they govern a lot more. Colour is just an interpretation of inputs, those inputs can be interpreted WILDLY different though depending on the computer you're interpreting them with.

    It definitely throws the concept of colour into the philosophical realm in my opinion. A foundational cornerstone of how they see and interpret the world is fundamentally different. To me it makes me wonder what other possibilities there are if you changed other cornerstones. What else is just an interpretation of inputs? Smell? Taste? Hearing?

    Presumably you could change the interpretation of the other senses via changing the base language interpretations of them. What if instead of high to low on the sound spectrum we instead had mixes of highs and lows together with some other spectrum being the basis of it? Would it produce the same result?

    We probably can't answer that question because we can't actually run ethical experiments on the topic but it's pretty crazy.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Absolutely mind blowing.

      The video makes me wonder if it's like, some environmental factor that independently affects the color perception and also the need for more color words.

      Maybe when you look at certain colors a lot growing up, or care about certain colors, it'll stretch those wavelengths out in your mental color wheel, or something, and compress others.