This video is inherently wrong, btw, that's not how vision and colors work. Colors exist in objects, independent of your perception, to even suggest otherwise is ridiculous. but I guess it's just cheap clickbait for layman.
@@reconon Colours don't exist, that's the problem. Frequency of light exists, wavelength exists, but only our vision translates the energy of the photon into the information in our brain called colour. Or try to explain how your "red" looks
Man, I remember those days, good old days when sometimes red was actually red and red was red instead of red, but you couldnt tell bc it was all black and white
When I was in 5th grade I asked my teacher this same question of is your red the same as mine? And if you throw a ball 100mph, and I drive a motorcycle 100mph right next to it, would I be able to reach out and grab it and not feel any force from the ball? She told me I need to stop wondering about such nonsense. It made me sad and I’ll never forget it.
But what you refer to as "alone" is based on previous experiences, and based on the fact you think it is possible not to be "alone" (because if it is possible to be alone, it is also possible to not be alone). If you think it's possible not to be "alone" it means you've experienced not being "alone" before, even though, at that time, you were still "alone in your mind", so it's a contradiction. Most of the times you start feeling this way, or feeling that nothing makes sense, it is a flawed statement, because it contradicts true experiences you had in the past, and I keep seeing people fall in this trap over and over. For example, you may think "everything I have and will ever done is predestined to be this way, because that's how matter works. If I were to create a 100% perfect computer simulation of the Big Bang, everything would repeat itself and the necessary information for the whole universe would already be contained and determined in the Big Bang. Therefore I have no free will, because I am just matter reacting to other matter". The last sentence is a flawed statement. Just because you dwelved deeper into how things work, it doesn't mean you don't have "free will". In the past, you have made choices, by which you defined "free will" to yourself. Now you claim that your own definition of "free will" doesn't exist to you even though you've experienced it and defined it in the past. I might have ranted for wayy too long but I always wanted to talk about this
11 years ago this was the first Vsauce video I ever watched. It blew my mind and I was immediately hooked on Vsauce's particular brand of science videos
I wondered this as a kid. I couldn't wrap my head around why everyone else didn't also think green was the best color. I wondered if maybe my friend who liked blue lived in a world where his sky would be green to me
My favorite colors are green and blue imagine if you see blue as orange and green as yellow I hate orange and yellow they look similar and like pee or what if you saw poop as blue or green hm anyways green and blue are THE BEST so yeah byee
Yeah I was thinking of this as well. Like we all describe red as warm because we are used to it being the colour of hot things, such as fire. But if fire was blue and ice was red, people would say blue is a hot colour and red is a cold colour.
@Eddie Alonzo Colourblind people have certain coulers they see different for example red green colourblind they would see white but think red is a shade of green
This video is a thought I've had forever. Man it's crazy how there's no way of knowing what other people's consciousnesses are like. To be human is to be alone
@@mantvydascepas1912 Hey dude it's just an observation. I don't fully think people are actually alone. It's just one way of looking at it because most people are unable to truly know what someone else is thinking so sometimes people feel alone. It's just an element of out divided consciousness, but yes we are moving to a place where consciousness will be connected. Science is finding out consciousness is a field and not just individual beings. I don't take things including myself so seriously so I know whenever I make an observation that I can easily contradict it. That's just life.
@@mantvydascepas1912 Yeah, that's your perpesctive. But, despite having a strong community, we can never truly understand, can never look into other's minds to know their perpesctive of the world. What if, my red is your blue, my sweet is your bitter, etc ? We can never know. We can feel like we are expressing the world, but it is just feeling made up by our senses and our minds. Senses and minds can be tricked by illusions. And yet, these are the only sources of information we get. So we are all alone in our minds, never be able to access to the truth, but only the approximate truth. Of course, this is a strangle view of the world. Much people prefer your perpesctive, because it is considered healthier. This is just a shower thought. You can watch a video titled "Is anything real ?" by Vsauce.
IF we can identify the same colour as "Blue" Then why is it such a long stretch to assume we all perceive it the same way? its not like we're a different species.
i think the theory that people see different colours is dumb because we can tell we are looking at the same thing by asking "is this colour light or dark" if i said dark and the colour was yellow we would know
or i always wondered what blind persons are "seeing" when they are not able to see. then i saw a r/askreddit post about that some guy that was blind and is now able to see and while i was looking at the comments i got my answer: he said actually they see "nothing" not black or white or anything, just nothing. And best way to understand this is to close one of your eyes. You will only see the vision in your open eye and you wont really see black with the closed eye like when you close both of your eyes Edit: fixed spelling mistakes sorry english isnt my first language
More difficult I think. It's like discovering a completely new sense. After all, a deaf person can't understand the sensation of hearing even if he can see. But we can see so a new color wouldn't be that surprising if we compare it to a blind person seeing for the first time.
Tbf, Pain is an important evolutionary advantage. Like, extremely important. It gives feedback on injuries so you don't worsen then So chances are that aliens will feel it
It's amazing i'm just discovering this channel when it has had so many of my ridiculous questions of my incredibly creative mind and the most important existential crisis moments since i was 5-10 years old
Something I had in my brain for a while... So you exist right now. You do what you do and think what you think. And other people do that too, but you can only experience yourself. So you all exist, and when you die, you no longer exist. So when you die, you are gone. But how? And think of the universe. It’s exists. And according to science the universe is expanding, which means it does have an end. Then what’s outside of the end? It can’t be an endless loop of things outside, just like the universe can’t be endless. And if nothing exists, then how does it work? Nothing has to exist but if nothing exists, what is the world? Nothing? And how does that work? Nothing exists, and there is 100% nothing. But what is there when there is nothing?? I don’t even know if you will get it (or even read it)
If you really want to know for sure, go on a computer with a color chart/picker and look for the same color, maybe say the darkest red before it turns pink, teal, etc. you can compare how fsr apart your selections were/the hex code
Does this mean we could all have the same favorite color? Maybe we only perceive different colors as the same favorite color, therefore every human has the same favorite color, that they perceive from different colors. Lets say the perception of purple is everyone's favorite color, and someone perceives green as purple, making green that persons favorite color. Or maybe, someone perceives yellow as purple, making yellow that persons favorite color. What if our brains only perceive the same favorite color from different colors, and everyone has the same favorite color?
Vsauce, you were in the toughest times of my life, and the hapiest times of my life. you brung me joy, in both of them, so now to celebrate you helping me through my life. i go back to my first Vsauce video i ever watched, to thank you. thank you for being here. and as always, thanks for the awesome videos.
I was eating a KitKat as Michael said “I can’t climb inside your consciousness and experience what chocolate tastes like to you” and it legit freaked me out a bit haha
FINALLY Ive ALWAYS wondered stuff like this What if we all see "red" differently but no one knows because we're all taught that its "red"?? In my version I was like, "how do people know someone is color blind??"
Not all is lost. Wavelength is the same to everyone. It's just our interpretation of that wavelength. So we can both say wavelength 'x' is within the visible range, and it has a numeric value. How our brains assign a colour to that wavelength though is completely subjective. It's like how some birds perhaps see UV, but we don't. We know UV wavelengths are there, and they have a value, but our brain has no subjective way to interpret that value, whilst birds do. My favourite example is sonar. Bats 'see' via sonar. But what is it like for a bat to 'see' like that? Is it like hearing? It a mental image made in their minds? What is that mental image like? We can never know. Our brains are just not evolved to function like that.
Ever heard of the mantis shrimp they can apparently see a broader spectrum with more colors than any human can see maybe color isnt realy there but in a way theres more of it than we can concieve
***** What I think treycott3 is trying to explain is: because the spectrum has a vastly large amount of waves that we currently cannot see, the potential of various colors for the brain to interpret is there if a species were ever capable of ever processing all those wavelengths.
I’m 38 years old, and since I was a young kid I have always wondered this very thing. Yes, we can (mostly) all acknowledge that a color is green, but how do I know what “your” green looks like compared to mine? I hope that someday someone figures out a way to determine this. Physically we can see how neuro pathways are identical in interpreting information. But do the “negatives” that are given to our brains produce the same “photograph,” or are they different? I really hope that someday someone can answer this question.
I’ve wondered the same thing. I doubt it’ll ever be answered though unless we somehow evolve to sense colors with hearing or touch. Smell and taste would probably lend to the same questions as sight.
Unfortunatley the by far most likely scenario is that we do all see them as basically the same but there will never be a way to prove that we do cause it can always be said that "there could just be another test we haven't though of yet." The only way we could ever know for sure is if it were proven true that are perceptions of color are different, but its so unlikely that that's true that there's a very good chance we'll just always wonder.
@@mahekshah9337 No, They both will react the same but we can never know how does it actually tastes like inside their brain, their sourness might be a totally different kind of sourness to you.
I am no scientist, but i think if we figured a way to convert sensory information like (colour, taste, imaginations, etc...) into patterns of non-sensory info, then we can detect how much different we percieve colour for every mind, but it might not work too because i do not have any idea if thoughts and learning is not a standelone experience as well. There is a possibility that we might never know.
I also had the same question for a long time, but whenever I tried explaining it to anybody they would think I was crazy😂. I don't know if I couldn't explain myself or maybe they didn't have mind theory😂
I had a similar thought about what you said about animals not asking questions. I had 3 dogs that were nearly identical, one of them took a dump in the living room while I wasn’t looking, and rather than trying to blend in with the other 2 dogs, he quickly tried to hide and looked ashamed when I found him, and so I theorized that the dog didn’t even question weather or not did I know it was him, he just assumed I knew the same things as him.
While you are correct, i think there might be extra reason (just a thought that came to my head). Dog sense of smell is much superior than ours, a dog might know which poop belong to which dog by the smell of it, therefore the dog probably think you know it's him because he doesn't know your sense of smell can't tell which poop belongs to which dog
@@kindlin top comment says dog just assumes human knows what it knows because it can’t comprehend anything other than in its own point of view and the second comment is saying that maybe the dog is actually seeing it in others perspectives but just coming to the same conclusion because of different reasons
I know how to find out whether we see colors the same way or not, it is a set of simple questions I came up with, and if you answer those questions the same way I do then it could mean that we do all see colors the same way. Do you want me to ask you those colorful questions?
This is so crazy because as a kid I literally thought about this. It started when I had wondered if everyone had the same favorite color but everyone perceive colors differently so we think we are seeing the same thing but we aren’t
I dont know about that. I mean if we all are not colorblind then we all see the same colors. So if we look at the rainbow and all are not colorblind at all (tried the test that shows if we are or not) than we all should see the same exact colors. Now if I'm not colorblind and someone else is and sees red as green or brown or something but still calls it red then yeah we could all have the same favorite color but think they are different colors despite calling it the same name.
Jake Suhr you missed the entire point of the discussion. lets say we have a blue marker everyone can agree that the markers blue. but one person sees the blue marker as what you would think was red, another sees the blue marker but their blue is your green. so we all learned this color was blue from childhood but the actual colors seen do not match if you could somehow see through anothers vision & brains interpretation
This channel is absolutely perfect for 4 situations: 1. Discussions while high; 2. Discussions while drunk; 3. Thinking on the toilet; 4. Thinking in the shower.
@@fabianbandaiii3304 what he is wondering here isn't a big mistery at all. Physics and medicine already knows all this. If you split the visible range and the mixes into millions of colors - human eyes can recognise them and tell the slightest of shades apart. Recognise because we see them as they are. The margin of error would be less. He just doesn't know much about the specialized cells in our eyes, the capabilities of them to tell so many colours apart probably. If we weren't experiencing them similarly, how? we would need different types of cells to perceive them, process them, generate different potentials, in much different quantities in our eyes, varying from one person to another. Nope. Jus the same, not much variation. Not enough for green strawberry drama haha
Im fascinated by the thought there are new colors which we havent discovered yet. No matter how hard we try to perceive, we cant imagine ANY new colors outside of our existing color spectrum
@@tuhopesanddreams3618 oh believe me you are so lucky for being able to smell. You can smell roses. You can smell tasty food. You can smell the body in your basement. Isnt this just great? Why wouldnt you want to be able to do that?
