Okay, in a sentence, describe to me what a colour is.
"Well, a colour is the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations
on the eye as a resul-"
-nobody understands that definition.
"A colour... is a colour.
I don't know how to describe colours, it's like love, you can't describe love, it's abstract,
it's in the inside, it's it's like, uuuuh."
But colours aren't abstract.
You can see colours, you can touch colours, you can paint colours.
"W-what's your point smartass?
What are you trying to convey?"
The point I'm trying to make...
is that colours...
are weird.
"Oh okay that's that's your poi- that's your point.
For a second I thought you were going to say something intelligent, (inhale) my mistake
honestly."
Listen listen listen...
fuck off.
(oh shit)
But I am trying to make a point here, you can only understand what a colour is when
you see one.
Try describing what colours are to a person who's been blind since birth.
(Tommy Edison - link in the description to his channel)
You can't describe colour to a blind person like you can a chair.
"It's a wooden thing you sit on."
(applause)
You can only draw parallels between colours and the attributes of other things they already
know about, like the smell thing that Tommy just said, and even that doesn't really work
does it?
You can't even describe a single colour, like the colour red for example, to someone who
CAN SEE, in absolute terms.
You can describe it only in relative terms, you can only give examples.
"Red!
Like blood.. and rubies... and lipstick... and the faces of angry cartoons."
We call this red because we were taught that this is red.
If I was taught that this is purple, I would totally believe it.
The names of colours are mere labels, they don't have any particular reason to be called
what they're called.
Which leads me to my crazy amazy little bit hazy conspiracy theory (well, it's not really
a conspiracy theory but just stick with me please).
What if we all perceive colours differently?
What if my red is your blue, what if your yellow is my green.
There isn't anything tying colours and their names together other than what we see, so
what if we all see different colours, but we just call those different colours the same
name because we think that this thing we're seeing is the same as what other people are
also seeing.
Every other thing that you see, you can also touch and confirm what it's actually physically
like.
But you can't touch a colour and determine which one it actually is.
I know it's a bit difficult to wrap your head around, but just please bear with me, I need
you to think about this.
Colour is what our brain perceives of the light coming into our eyes.
And it's not necessary that your brain will process the information in the same way that
my brain does.
So what if, when you see the sky, you see this, and I see this.
You say "the sky is blue", and I say "yes, good observation Einstein, the sky IS blue."
Because that's your blue, and this is my blue.
WE HAVE DIFFERENT BLUES!
We have different representations of what the word blue means.
Since you can't see through my eyes and I can't see through yours, there's NO way of
finding out the differences in what we see.
I mean there might be a complicated sciencey-weincey-smarty way but let's stay in the zone that is understandable
to us.
If you feel like I'm really reaching for it with the blue thing, what if we see the same
colours, but different intensities of the colour, because of the difference in the number
of colour receptors we have in our brain.
And if you still feel that I'm being really unrealistic, then what if you and I see COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT COLOURS.
Like you have this colour scale and I have a completely different colour scale which
has colours that don't even EXIST IN YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD LEARN TO IMAGINATION IDIOT.
And for your "satisfaction", I'm not the only one who thinks that this could be possible.
Many scientists believe that this could be the case.
Just google this and you'll find articles upon articles asking the same question.
So this is not really a conspiracy theory, but it gets people's attention so I'm gonna
call it a conspiracy theory.
So moving away from shitty conspiracy theories, let's talk about something more concrete and
based in reality.
It is a fact that we humans can only see a limited range of colours out of the huge range
that exists.
A lot of other animals can see more colours than we can.
That is a fact and the truth.
Unless you don't believe in science, then yes, the world is a flat disk supported by
four elephants standing on top of a flying turtle.
Humans have three types of colour receptors in their brain, birds have four, so they can
see UV light, and they can also see different shades of the same colour that we can't distinguish
between.
The Mantis Shrimp has 16 different types of colour receptors!
So in a rainbow where you see 7 colours, the Mantis Shrimp sees.. uhh.. more colours than
you!
If you feel a little left out by this, you feel a little more useless than usual, then
don't you worry you little piece of worthlessness!
In the future, it might be possible for humans to be GIVEN a fourth type of colour receptor,
like birds!
If there actually is a possibility for that to happen, then maybe in the more futurer
future, we could just be injected with the 16 receptor cells of the Mantis Shrimp, and
you can suddenly also see the 16 colors of a rainbow that the Mantis Shrimp sees.
That would be one hell of a drug though.
Inject yourself with Mantis colours, then smoke some weed, then YOU WILL TRIP SOME MAJOR
BALLS.
THE THINGS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE OHMYBIGBANGBECAUSEGODDOESN'TEXIST.
Also british english and american english have different spellings for the word colour.
Eh, stop being morons and decide on one spelling is that too hard for you you fucking spastic
idiots.
Anyway, here's a slideshow of colours with weird names.
(Also bye)
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