Is Your Red The Same as My Red?
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points people to it as an accessible explanation of what qualia are.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends 0xdeadb00f · 2019-08 · on “Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?”
For anyone who read this comment and was wondering what "qualia" actually is, I found an old episode of VSause about it: [this video] .
Recommends behindsight · 2020-06 · on ““You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)”
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: [this video]
Cites danbruc · 2024-09 · on “Is My Blue Your Blue?”
I expected this to be about the question whether your perception of blue might be like my perception of red. [1] [1] [this video]