Sep 9, 2025 08:25 PM
(This post was last modified: Sep 9, 2025 10:23 PM by C C.)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/red-...vity-color
EXCERPTS: It’s a late-night debate in college dorms across the world: Is my red the same as your red? Two neuroscientists weigh in on this classic “Intro to Philosophy” puzzler in research published September 8 in the Journal of Neuroscience. Their answer is a resounding maybe.
[...] The results show that neural reactions to colors are somewhat standard and don’t seem to vary much from person to person. But these neuroanatomical findings can’t answer the question of how it feels to see red, Bartels says. How brain activity creates subjective inner experiences is a much bigger and thornier question about consciousness, one that will no doubt continue to be debated for a long time... (MORE - details)
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The whole point is the experience or manifestation of red. That's not a personal conceptual feeling (I hate red versus I like red). Either your spatially spread visual presentation of red is the same as mine, or it is not. Due to our universal agreement when it comes to identifying and selecting the color of red (excluding people with medical conditions), it's obvious that different percentages of the population can't be experiencing randomly distributed occurrences of blue or green trading places with red (etc). The "pink" range of hues doesn't even correspond to actual frequencies of light "out there", and even it is something that the brain has standardized as part of the psychological color spectrum for the majority.
EXCERPTS: It’s a late-night debate in college dorms across the world: Is my red the same as your red? Two neuroscientists weigh in on this classic “Intro to Philosophy” puzzler in research published September 8 in the Journal of Neuroscience. Their answer is a resounding maybe.
[...] The results show that neural reactions to colors are somewhat standard and don’t seem to vary much from person to person. But these neuroanatomical findings can’t answer the question of how it feels to see red, Bartels says. How brain activity creates subjective inner experiences is a much bigger and thornier question about consciousness, one that will no doubt continue to be debated for a long time... (MORE - details)
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The whole point is the experience or manifestation of red. That's not a personal conceptual feeling (I hate red versus I like red). Either your spatially spread visual presentation of red is the same as mine, or it is not. Due to our universal agreement when it comes to identifying and selecting the color of red (excluding people with medical conditions), it's obvious that different percentages of the population can't be experiencing randomly distributed occurrences of blue or green trading places with red (etc). The "pink" range of hues doesn't even correspond to actual frequencies of light "out there", and even it is something that the brain has standardized as part of the psychological color spectrum for the majority.