THE VIDEO SHELF · qualia and perception
Is Your Red The Same as My Red?
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 HN readers recommended it
HN points people to it as an accessible explanation of what qualia are.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Vsauce
- Topic
- qualia and perception
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2024
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For anyone who read this comment and was wondering what "qualia" actually is, I found an old episode of VSause about it: [VIDEO] .
0xdeadb00f on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?You might be interested in the concept of qualia [0] Vsauce did a good video on it, "Is Your Red The Same as My Red?" [1] 0: [LINK] 1: [VIDEO]
behindsight on Hacker News · 2020-06
In “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
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