This subject is super interesting for me. I was born with a genetic condition called retinal dystrophy. This is a progressive disease that slowly destroys the cells responsible for detecting both light and colors, which eventually will turn one partially or completelly blind. Now the really interesting part that has to do with your video: If I see a tree, I see its brown trunk and green leaves against the blue sky. However, if you show me a sheet of paper with these colors, I don't know how to differentiate one from the other, that is, I can see the colors, but only "psychologically" for lack of a better term. Visually impaired people, especially those who wasn't born completelly blind, see various types of interesting phenomena. I suggest those interested to look for Charles Bonnet syndrome. Anyway, thanks for your attention and sorry for the broken English, I understand it better than I write.
this comment is so interesting. i'd never heard of charles bonnet syndrome - apparently one of the only hallucinatory disorders that are not classed as an effect of mental health issues. also don't worry - your english is absolutely flawless.
Hello @@ellasarax, thanks for your kind response! I see a "thing" at the point where I should theoretically be completely blind, but according to the studies I've read, my case does not fit Bonnet's syndrome, hence I call it a "thing"... phenomena are difficult to describe when there are no conventional parallels. But anyway, I discovered over the years that not seeing affects several physical areas that are not exactly vision, such as, for example, the circadian rhythm. Look for a "low sighted" friend and they will tell you that their sleep is erratic. My day is currently 27 to 28 hours long, and it has been increasing over the years, reflecting the lack of cells that control the reception/perception of light. Fun stuff 😜
@@GabrielPerboni While that sucks for you, that's also super interesting. I've never thought about how gradual loss of vision could affect someone's circadian rhythm. I wonder if blasting your eyes with bright light (without damaging them) when you first wake up could help realign it.
@@GabrielPerboni It also makes me wonder if those with partial/full vision loss can compensate for a loss of light related circadian rhythms with other circadian rhythms like core body temperature and heart rate, in the same way that loss of sight leads to other senses like sound and smell being heightened. Maybe if you eat at consistent times each day, make sure that you're exposed to cold in the morning and warmth in the afternoon, and do breathing exercises to slow your heart rate before sleep it could help realign your body clock? Idk these are all guesses, but it's fun to think about!
Man, the fact that researching colours is both a case of studying inherent properties AND studying perception and psychology really confirms to me that... this is my jam.
This might give me that breakthrough I need as an artist. I still struggle on deciding what colors to choose when painting. It takes a lot of time. But this video made me realize that as long as colors are in the context of a scene, then I'm going in the right direction.
Ironically, blue light is hotter than red light. Blue light has a higher wavelength frequency, being closer to ultraviolet, while red is closer to the lower frequency and cooler infrared.
Close but backwards. Infrared transmits more heat than any visible colour frequency. Red, being closer to infrared, transmits more heat than does blue. It is true that objects that are super hot emit more blue light than cooler objects, but the light* itself is not more warm * technically the light emitted *is* warmer and warms objects better, but that's because there is also a larger amount of infrared frequencies emitted as well, not because blue light warms matter more
Dude I’ve gotta say this was a such great video, it deserved to do so much better but honestly man you just gotta keep posting stuff, your content is genuinely one of a kind and I love the way you’re able to break down these topics and talk about them You’re 100% gonna blow up and make it big I’m so sure of it
This feels like a part 2 to your AI video. You said in that video that we are an interaction between ourselves and the environment so it's really cool to see it expanded upon here.
I absolutely love videos like this one. I’m an artist and have deep interest in the sciences. Thank you for this lesson on how colors are more than pretty hues.
Another great video, colors are one of the best things about living, and one of the best gifts we have from nature. Aesthetics is a really cool part of Philosophy, and it's one of the things that make us look at the world differently, our art and life gets more and more beautiful every day!
Fantastic video, dude! This kind of philosophy that connects cognitive science with phenomenology is right up my street, so this was an excellent watch. Well done!
Hey I know you don’t get as many views on your non iceberg videos, but I wanted to say that despite that they are incredible videos and you are not wasting your time making them. They have meant a lot to me.
Color is sooo so extremely cool and I would encourage anyone intrigued in thinking about color this way to read up on some color science stuff! I’m personally studying it as part of my degree and it is just fascinating. The light and objects and the way they interact are all out there, but you need humans there to actually perceive any of it. The psychological aspect of color is one of the most funky and interesting parts of our perception too. Very well put together video!! PS when you mentioned the primary and secondary qualities thing I immediately thought about the fact that we actually have two different metrics for light, one purely objective and the other weighted through a curve for human perception. Again, v cool vid!
Brilliant! I'm a painter who has been teaching color relativity for decades. It requires quite a shift in perception to overcome color constancy see how colors effect each other, but there are many practical ways of doing this. It begins with disconnecting from the namable object; seeing the visual world as a pattern of flat shapes, (back to the Newtonian scientific approach) and then seeing how those shapes interact (a responsive Goethe approach). One learns to place colors on a relative value scale (black to white), and on a relative saturation scale by comparing all the colors in a motif. Even with all those measurements, each person paints with a different set of colors because all the colors a relative and it all depends on your starting point. Thanks for your wonderful video.
Wow, this video is genuinely one of the best explanations of a complex idea that I've ever seen. Bravo. Can't wait to see what you're working on next!!
So impressed with the scope and research, writing, editing and prioritizing. Great work. I'd love to hear more about aspects of color assessment I've never quite understood--like saturation, shade, tone, gray-tone, metallic color, light-bleaching, the endless mixed colors--teal, pink, salmon, lilac, sage, umber, cream, brown, vermilion, viridian, etc, and the various over-effects that seem to bear some analogy with the "timbre" of sound--adularescence, opalescence, iridescence, labradorescence, aventurescence, etc.
I recently started listened to the audiobook version of An Immense World by Ed Yong while I walk my dog, the book explores how animals perceive their respective worlds and construct reality. Theres a chapter specifically on how different eyes receive color- its absolutely fascinating and pairs really well with this video. Happy to have discovered your channel this way.
As an artist and art teacher I've noticed that non-artists have a very arduous time learning how to see color and value (darks to lights). They have an associative kind of seeing and tend to apply to a surface what they expect a thing to look like instead of what it actually looks like. It's really interesting. To them all bananas are yellow, all metal is gray, all water is blue, etc. It's a long process to train them out of that type of seeing.
I found your channel through the linguistics iceberg, and I've fallen in love with your channel. I've watched most of your content over the past few days and eagerly await what you make in the future.
@@dryelene blue and purple I can't tell the difference between can I have a lot a problems with green brown and reds I had to take the color blindness test to join the army and was told Im in the top 1% of color deficient people
@@dryelene to be honest I scored high enough on my ASVAB that I could have picked any job in the army my list went from anything I wanted to 10 jobs that I had to choose from. Color blind people can join that can only do a certain amount of jobs in the military. I've always enjoyed learning things and being as I can't see colors perfectly like everybody else I've always wondered and been curious about colors
Incredibly well made video, if only I found it sooner since I was unaware that Goethe has a quasi-phenomenology of colors The connection to 4E, ecology and Thompson is great, thats something that iv been researching lately
Thanks man. 4E cognition is really cool stuff. If you're looking for more Goethe color content I would really recommend the documentary Light, Darkness And Colours if you haven't seen it already. The whole thing is on youtube titled "Goethe's Theory of Colors".
The warm/cold hands in lukewarm water trick is because the way we think about heat and energy. There is no such thing as "cold", there is just greater or lesser amount of energy flow. Heat is always flowing out of the human body. When the outside air temperature is significantly lower than the body, heat/energy flows out quickly. We perceive this rapid heat shedding as "feeling cold", and we usually put on insulating layers to slow down the outward flow. When the temperature is hotter outside of our body, the outward flow of heat slows significantly or can even reverse. We call this "feeling hot". The hand in cold water is accelerated in its heat loss rate, and when that same hand is then plunged into lukewarm water ... "lukewarm" is typically close or just below himan body temperature... then the outward flow rate rapidly slows or even reverses, and that hand thus now "feels warm". The inverse happens for the hand that was first submersed in hot water.
Mam, i am just blown away by how good this video was. It was such a great high level overview of so many interesting niches. I wish this video was like 2 hours long and could delve deeper into all the philosophy haha
Good idea about color evolving for more than just to be seen. Organisms that photosynthesis are green because it's the best wavelength to absorb in earth's atmosphere while other colors reflect. In addition evergreen trees are a darker shade of green to help them absorb more heat in the winter which provides more energy to the sounding snow to produce water. Awesome videos 🤙
Great vid. When you brought up the idea that the animals are interlinked with their environment, my mind jumped to thinking about how fruits are brightly colored so that animals could easily see them, this was just minutes before you mentioned the exact phenomena I was thinking about!
The day I had a comprehension about color and how it was experienced through other people was when my friend's dad said he did acid once and claimed he tasted the color purple. I kept asking what it really tasted like. Did it taste like blueberries, grapes, cherries? He said NO; it just tasted like purple. The color purple was what he tasted and couldn't be compared to anything he'd ever tasted. I was in shock trying to wrap my head around this concept.
dude this video is so good that it sent me into an existential crisis. I can’t stop thinking about how i’m stuck inside my own mind and own body and will never perceive the world the way anyone else does. thank you
Thanks for posting. I did my MA thesis in 1985 on the Newton/Goethe colour controversy and, as quantum physics was discovering at the time, it boiled down to observation versus participation and concluded that you can't have one without the other - but also revealed the bigger question, what is the nature of light? 😉
I didn’t know what to expect when I clicked on this video, but I gotta say that I was really interested and enjoyed hearing about this subject. You did a damn good job with this video, keep at it
thank u for providing educational and fun to watch vids ur doing so great it’s a shame there’s not a bigger audience but that’s not a reflection of the quality of ur work (which is so entertaining while maintaining the informative qualities i love in video essays)
Alright so here’s what we do. We take 50 human children, 50 of the smartest gray parrots, 50 sign language gorillas, 50 of the smartest dolphins. And ask them all about colors, we’ll figure out if it’s just us or them too?
This is really cool video. Reminded me of The Case Against Reality by D. Hoffman - we evolved to perceive the reality for evolutionary gain, but actual reality can be something completely unimaginable.
Sensory experience can not fail to correctly represent the external world. -Sensory experience represents whatever is its cause. -It represents not just one single thing but the entire causal chain. -The strength of the representing decreases with the causal distance from one’s sense experience. -Even Illusions, hallucinations and dreams correctly represent the external world. -Only our interpretation about what it represents can be mistaken.
@@Opposite271do you consider the colour phi phenomenon a misrepresentation of what is happening in the external world? If not, could you define your terms more specifically?
One of the interesting thing about color perception is to a certain extent you can train yourself to see subtleties within colors and shades as well. Here not dark, medium, or light red. But rather a coolness or warmth within shades of grey. But it also means, if you work with pixels a lot, you start to tell the difference between solid colors and pixel patterns. So I can detect when green has some blue, or yellow has some red. I also prefer working with hex codes.
Brilliant! I'm a painter who has been teaching color relativity for decades. It requires quite a shift in perception to overcome color constancy see how colors effect each other, but there are many practical ways of doing this. It begins with disconnecting from the namable object; seeing the visual world as a pattern of flat shapes, (back to the Newtonian scientific approach) and then seeing how those shapes interact (a responsive Goethe approach). One learns to place colors on a relative value scale (black to white), and on a relative saturation scale by comparing all the colors in a motif. Even with all those measurements, each person paints with a different set of colors because all the colors a relative and it all depends on your starting point. Thanks for your wonderful video.
In my language (Vietnamese) we use the same word for blue and green, màu xanh. But when we need to be specific we would add a description to that word. For example green would be màu xanh lá or blue would be màu xanh da trời. Literally translate to xanh like leaf and xanh like the sky.
You're honestly one of my favorite TH-camrs yet! Thank you for the AI video, the far-right comments were really annoying and I'm glad you took a sassy approach to petty comments. This was a very interesting and thought video as wellm
Well beyond color, this concept of co-determination between an animal and environment (and any and all forms of life, for that matter) is so difficult to articulate to people who don't come from a biology-focused background. Its actually one of the banes of my existence when interacting with others in STEM fields, because they're all so tunnel visioned in their studies that they tend to be extremely bad at grasping the bigger picture of almost anything! Even in their own fields! I get made fun of (in good humor) for being in such a "soft science" where "everything is always changing and you never know anything for certain" but it drives me crazy because... that's the WORLD we live in. That's how EVERYTHING works! I fully understand what Darwin meant when he said "He who understands the baboon would do more for metaphysics than Locke" lmao. I constantly lament the lack of insight or understanding of the natural world that so many great minds have because it holds them back from so much they could have known. If you reject your place as a biological creature shaped by and shaping the environment around you, you will never understand anything fully!
As someone who did not go to high school and started studying biology in my late 30s, the amount of people that don't understand taxonomic nested hierarchies is stunning. I direct people to Aron Ra's 50 part series 'Systematic Classification of Life' all the time.
I'm always amazed at how elaborate, philosophical and humanistic color descriptions are. For a humble engineer, eyes just have built in white balancing.
when i learned the fact that if us humans have different types of cone cells we can see many more kind of colors, i wonder that if this kind of thing happens for the duration of an hour what would change about the perspective of our lives...
Dude I’ve gotta say this was a such great video, it deserved to do so much better but honestly man you just gotta keep posting stuff, your content is genuinely one of a kind and I love the way you’re able to break down these topics and talk about them You’re 100% gonna blow up and make it big I’m so sure of it
I've thought about this for a while and a great understanding came to me when I asked myself "why is water and air transparent?". It's obvious then that we evolved eyes sensitive in the band of frequencies at which both of these media in which we hunt and fish is transparent.
Videos like this are just so damn intriguing. It shocks me some people live their whole lives not questioning and wanting to know more about things as simple as color and perception in life. Like the reasoning of it, why it’s a thing, why we see it for what it is, just fascinating!
I am a mental health clinician and, in working with clients, particularly with mood disorders, enjoy challenging them to wear colors that flatter them but also elevate their mood. Nuances are helpful.
I did not at all anticipate that this was where this video was gonna go, but it was fascinating... I'll give it that! Didn't think that evolution would even mess with how we precieve colour, but here we are. XD
I feel like there is a definition for colour outside of an observer. That being which wavelengths of light any given material reflects and absorbs. While I agree that perception and colour are intimately linked I do also believe there is an objective way to define colour
9:40 in this example, the physical phenomenon does macth the feeling . Our sense of temperature is based on heat transfer, if heat enters your hand you find it hot, and viceversa
Thanks for posting. I did my MA thesis in 1985 on the Newton/Goethe colour controversy and, as quantum physics was discovering at the time, it boiled down to observation versus participation and concluded that you can't have one without the other - but also revealed the bigger question, what is the nature of light?
Great video! Now that we've got the red=hot/blue=cold system figured out, I'd like to know if any progress has been made lately on working out why shower knobs at hotels are always flipped from how you're used to. It's kind of like the USB plugging thing.
Your videos are epic, with the quality of your content I’m surprised to see your subscriber count so low… keep it up man I’m excited to watch your channel grow. I’ll get to tell my friends I subscribed before it was cool
6:25 while doing a color study a while back, i noticed that once you desaturate a color, it looks like it's fading into its compliment. likely because two perfect compliments create a grey
As an artist and ex-physics student that have a science mind set, I used to perceive colors the physical way, and struggles because of that mind set, but throughout the years learning about color theories of art, I slowly sifted to the other side, now I know that what matters isn't what an object SHOLD be colored, but what it CAN be colored, don't stick to the object 'physical color', but considering more on the enviroment, the mood, the feeling, or the meaning of the art as a whole
There is a fascinating parallel here with the collapse of the quantum mechanical wave function which just like color relies on that measurement by an observer.
I put this on before a nap (no offense, I did come back to watch this while conscious lol) but I was actively drifting into a dream, like I’d say I was almost completely asleep, and you mentioned boards of Canada and my eyes flew open. I watched a video many years ago that mentioned boards of Canada, (part of me feels it was a solar sands video) I listened to them briefly but had since forgotten anything at all about the video and the band name - I only remember one album cover but it’s geogaddi which I didn’t even attempt to describe to google. Anyways, I’ve been waiting for the band name to pop up somewhere even though I’d only ever heard of it in the video and nowhere else since. I think it’s so interesting how I couldn’t have remembered it if I had a gun to my head, but while nearly unconscious hearing the name I instantly recognized it as the thing I’d been looking for.
Thank you for your videos. I have been watching stuff like this for years but other than Vsauce this is more thought provoking and eye opening than anything I've watched before.
I am a big Gibson fan. His wife also made major contributions in child development. You did a good job at representing the Gibson approach. My wife remains a Lockian.
Just randomly remembered when I played this game called "my candy love" years ago. During april fools one year, the players were gifted with a black/blue & white/gold dress. Only problem was it was the same dress and would change colors randomly as you interacted with the game.
Note on timestamp 6:10, Violet and purple both fall within the category of purple. The complimentary color of green is red, not purple. So in other words the opposite of yellow is purple, the opposite of red is green, and the opposite of blue is orange.
Hey man I just wanna thank you… your videos have really had a effect on me I’ve listen to deathconsciousness so many times and it’s really really amazing thank you man
This subject is super interesting for me. I was born with a genetic condition called retinal dystrophy. This is a progressive disease that slowly destroys the cells responsible for detecting both light and colors, which eventually will turn one partially or completelly blind.
Now the really interesting part that has to do with your video:
If I see a tree, I see its brown trunk and green leaves against the blue sky. However, if you show me a sheet of paper with these colors, I don't know how to differentiate one from the other, that is, I can see the colors, but only "psychologically" for lack of a better term.
Visually impaired people, especially those who wasn't born completelly blind, see various types of interesting phenomena. I suggest those interested to look for Charles Bonnet syndrome.
Anyway, thanks for your attention and sorry for the broken English, I understand it better than I write.
don’t worry!! Your English is really good!
this comment is so interesting. i'd never heard of charles bonnet syndrome - apparently one of the only hallucinatory disorders that are not classed as an effect of mental health issues. also don't worry - your english is absolutely flawless.
Hello @@ellasarax, thanks for your kind response!
I see a "thing" at the point where I should theoretically be completely blind, but according to the studies I've read, my case does not fit Bonnet's syndrome, hence I call it a "thing"... phenomena are difficult to describe when there are no conventional parallels.
But anyway, I discovered over the years that not seeing affects several physical areas that are not exactly vision, such as, for example, the circadian rhythm. Look for a "low sighted" friend and they will tell you that their sleep is erratic. My day is currently 27 to 28 hours long, and it has been increasing over the years, reflecting the lack of cells that control the reception/perception of light.
Fun stuff 😜
@@GabrielPerboni While that sucks for you, that's also super interesting. I've never thought about how gradual loss of vision could affect someone's circadian rhythm. I wonder if blasting your eyes with bright light (without damaging them) when you first wake up could help realign it.
@@GabrielPerboni It also makes me wonder if those with partial/full vision loss can compensate for a loss of light related circadian rhythms with other circadian rhythms like core body temperature and heart rate, in the same way that loss of sight leads to other senses like sound and smell being heightened. Maybe if you eat at consistent times each day, make sure that you're exposed to cold in the morning and warmth in the afternoon, and do breathing exercises to slow your heart rate before sleep it could help realign your body clock? Idk these are all guesses, but it's fun to think about!
Man, the fact that researching colours is both a case of studying inherent properties AND studying perception and psychology really confirms to me that... this is my jam.
for real I'm studying cognitive science so this is like my favourite video ever now haha
But what colour is your jam?
@@chrisbovington9607 Depends entirely on how the light hits it, methinks. :)
This might give me that breakthrough I need as an artist.
I still struggle on deciding what colors to choose when painting. It takes a lot of time. But this video made me realize that as long as colors are in the context of a scene, then I'm going in the right direction.
Bang on! I hope your creations are getting on well with this insight.
I just painted my kitchen yellow. It looks out onto a load of green bushes and trees so it works really well.
@@shadowatch4767right, same
@@Andrew-rc3vhlol
@@Andrew-rc3vhthat sounds nice!
Every friend group's got the prism guy.
Me. I'm the only guy in my friend group but fortunately I have a few personalities.
I've got two of 'em
Had a rainbow guy but we sent him to god
i must become the prism guy
❌ Rainbow prism guy
✅ Gay light guy
Ironically, blue light is hotter than red light. Blue light has a higher wavelength frequency, being closer to ultraviolet, while red is closer to the lower frequency and cooler infrared.
Interesting like fire blue fire hotter
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Huh, today I learned!! 😅
blue light is not hotter than red light, but it takes a hotter substance to emit blue light than red
Close but backwards. Infrared transmits more heat than any visible colour frequency. Red, being closer to infrared, transmits more heat than does blue.
It is true that objects that are super hot emit more blue light than cooler objects, but the light* itself is not more warm
* technically the light emitted *is* warmer and warms objects better, but that's because there is also a larger amount of infrared frequencies emitted as well, not because blue light warms matter more
Dude I’ve gotta say this was a such great video, it deserved to do so much better but honestly man you just gotta keep posting stuff, your content is genuinely one of a kind and I love the way you’re able to break down these topics and talk about them You’re 100% gonna blow up and make it big I’m so sure of it
This feels like a part 2 to your AI video. You said in that video that we are an interaction between ourselves and the environment so it's really cool to see it expanded upon here.
It's like everyone's got a different texture pack on
Hehe
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I absolutely love videos like this one. I’m an artist and have deep interest in the sciences. Thank you for this lesson on how colors are more than pretty hues.
Another great video, colors are one of the best things about living, and one of the best gifts we have from nature. Aesthetics is a really cool part of Philosophy, and it's one of the things that make us look at the world differently, our art and life gets more and more beautiful every day!
Fantastic video, dude! This kind of philosophy that connects cognitive science with phenomenology is right up my street, so this was an excellent watch. Well done!
Hey I know you don’t get as many views on your non iceberg videos, but I wanted to say that despite that they are incredible videos and you are not wasting your time making them. They have meant a lot to me.
Color is sooo so extremely cool and I would encourage anyone intrigued in thinking about color this way to read up on some color science stuff! I’m personally studying it as part of my degree and it is just fascinating. The light and objects and the way they interact are all out there, but you need humans there to actually perceive any of it. The psychological aspect of color is one of the most funky and interesting parts of our perception too. Very well put together video!!
PS when you mentioned the primary and secondary qualities thing I immediately thought about the fact that we actually have two different metrics for light, one purely objective and the other weighted through a curve for human perception. Again, v cool vid!
Brilliant! I'm a painter who has been teaching color relativity for decades. It requires quite a shift in perception to overcome color constancy see how colors effect each other, but there are many practical ways of doing this. It begins with disconnecting from the namable object; seeing the visual world as a pattern of flat shapes, (back to the Newtonian scientific approach) and then seeing how those shapes interact (a responsive Goethe approach). One learns to place colors on a relative value scale (black to white), and on a relative saturation scale by comparing all the colors in a motif. Even with all those measurements, each person paints with a different set of colors because all the colors a relative and it all depends on your starting point.
Thanks for your wonderful video.
Wow, this video is genuinely one of the best explanations of a complex idea that I've ever seen. Bravo. Can't wait to see what you're working on next!!
So impressed with the scope and research, writing, editing and prioritizing. Great work.
I'd love to hear more about aspects of color assessment I've never quite understood--like saturation, shade, tone, gray-tone, metallic color, light-bleaching, the endless mixed colors--teal, pink, salmon, lilac, sage, umber, cream, brown, vermilion, viridian, etc, and the various over-effects that seem to bear some analogy with the "timbre" of sound--adularescence, opalescence, iridescence, labradorescence, aventurescence, etc.
I recently started listened to the audiobook version of An Immense World by Ed Yong while I walk my dog, the book explores how animals perceive their respective worlds and construct reality. Theres a chapter specifically on how different eyes receive color- its absolutely fascinating and pairs really well with this video. Happy to have discovered your channel this way.
I just ordered the book, thank you for alerting me to it.
As an artist and art teacher I've noticed that non-artists have a very arduous time learning how to see color and value (darks to lights). They have an associative kind of seeing and tend to apply to a surface what they expect a thing to look like instead of what it actually looks like. It's really interesting. To them all bananas are yellow, all metal is gray, all water is blue, etc. It's a long process to train them out of that type of seeing.
I found your channel through the linguistics iceberg, and I've fallen in love with your channel. I've watched most of your content over the past few days and eagerly await what you make in the future.
I'm colorblind so I found this very interesting
What color associations do you usually have?
@@dryelene blue and purple I can't tell the difference between can I have a lot a problems with green brown and reds I had to take the color blindness test to join the army and was told Im in the top 1% of color deficient people
@@andrewvogel5344 did they let you join despite that? Thats pretty cool, how did you react to the video?
@@dryelene to be honest I scored high enough on my ASVAB that I could have picked any job in the army my list went from anything I wanted to 10 jobs that I had to choose from. Color blind people can join that can only do a certain amount of jobs in the military. I've always enjoyed learning things and being as I can't see colors perfectly like everybody else I've always wondered and been curious about colors
@@andrewvogel5344bros watching without visual 💀
Incredibly well made video, if only I found it sooner since I was unaware that Goethe has a quasi-phenomenology of colors
The connection to 4E, ecology and Thompson is great, thats something that iv been researching lately
Thanks man. 4E cognition is really cool stuff. If you're looking for more Goethe color content I would really recommend the documentary Light, Darkness And Colours if you haven't seen it already. The whole thing is on youtube titled "Goethe's Theory of Colors".
This is one of the best philosophy videos I’ve seen on youtube! So interesting, informative and well thought out yet easy to understand 👏👏👏
The warm/cold hands in lukewarm water trick is because the way we think about heat and energy. There is no such thing as "cold", there is just greater or lesser amount of energy flow. Heat is always flowing out of the human body. When the outside air temperature is significantly lower than the body, heat/energy flows out quickly. We perceive this rapid heat shedding as "feeling cold", and we usually put on insulating layers to slow down the outward flow. When the temperature is hotter outside of our body, the outward flow of heat slows significantly or can even reverse. We call this "feeling hot".
The hand in cold water is accelerated in its heat loss rate, and when that same hand is then plunged into lukewarm water ... "lukewarm" is typically close or just below himan body temperature... then the outward flow rate rapidly slows or even reverses, and that hand thus now "feels warm". The inverse happens for the hand that was first submersed in hot water.
Mam, i am just blown away by how good this video was. It was such a great high level overview of so many interesting niches. I wish this video was like 2 hours long and could delve deeper into all the philosophy haha
Good idea about color evolving for more than just to be seen. Organisms that photosynthesis are green because it's the best wavelength to absorb in earth's atmosphere while other colors reflect. In addition evergreen trees are a darker shade of green to help them absorb more heat in the winter which provides more energy to the sounding snow to produce water. Awesome videos 🤙
This is one of the best philosophy videos I’ve seen on youtube! So interesting, informative and well thought out yet easy to understand
Great vid. When you brought up the idea that the animals are interlinked with their environment, my mind jumped to thinking about how fruits are brightly colored so that animals could easily see them, this was just minutes before you mentioned the exact phenomena I was thinking about!
That's the Ligma Effect!
@@kphaxx what???
Only Sugondese people get it.
Big shout-out for participatory knowledge/co-determination between agent and arena. Great video!
Excellent video. Fantastic merging of psychology and biophysics. Well done
The day I had a comprehension about color and how it was experienced through other people was when my friend's dad said he did acid once and claimed he tasted the color purple. I kept asking what it really tasted like. Did it taste like blueberries, grapes, cherries? He said NO; it just tasted like purple. The color purple was what he tasted and couldn't be compared to anything he'd ever tasted. I was in shock trying to wrap my head around this concept.
Good stuff! I remember my art teacher trying to explain these concepts but less clearly, this vid helped make it click
dude this video is so good that it sent me into an existential crisis. I can’t stop thinking about how i’m stuck inside my own mind and own body and will never perceive the world the way anyone else does. thank you
Thanks for posting. I did my MA thesis in 1985 on the Newton/Goethe colour controversy and, as quantum physics was discovering at the time, it boiled down to observation versus participation and concluded that you can't have one without the other - but also revealed the bigger question, what is the nature of light? 😉
I didn’t know what to expect when I clicked on this video, but I gotta say that I was really interested and enjoyed hearing about this subject. You did a damn good job with this video, keep at it
thank u for providing educational and fun to watch vids ur doing so great it’s a shame there’s not a bigger audience but that’s not a reflection of the quality of ur work (which is so entertaining while maintaining the informative qualities i love in video essays)
This is the most profound video about color psychology I’ve seen in TH-cam. Well done!
Alright so here’s what we do. We take 50 human children, 50 of the smartest gray parrots, 50 sign language gorillas, 50 of the smartest dolphins. And ask them all about colors, we’ll figure out if it’s just us or them too?
That's actually a pretty great idea
This was absolutely excellent. Thank you for explaining color in such a profound and eloquent way. Much love.
This is really cool video. Reminded me of The Case Against Reality by D. Hoffman - we evolved to perceive the reality for evolutionary gain, but actual reality can be something completely unimaginable.
Sensory experience can not fail to correctly represent the external world.
-Sensory experience represents whatever is its cause.
-It represents not just one single thing but the entire causal chain.
-The strength of the representing decreases with the causal distance from one’s sense experience.
-Even Illusions, hallucinations and dreams correctly represent the external world.
-Only our interpretation about what it represents can be mistaken.
@@Opposite271do you consider the colour phi phenomenon a misrepresentation of what is happening in the external world? If not, could you define your terms more specifically?
One of the interesting thing about color perception is to a certain extent you can train yourself to see subtleties within colors and shades as well.
Here not dark, medium, or light red.
But rather a coolness or warmth within shades of grey. But it also means, if you work with pixels a lot, you start to tell the difference between solid colors and pixel patterns.
So I can detect when green has some blue, or yellow has some red. I also prefer working with hex codes.
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Brilliant! I'm a painter who has been teaching color relativity for decades. It requires quite a shift in perception to overcome color constancy see how colors effect each other, but there are many practical ways of doing this. It begins with disconnecting from the namable object; seeing the visual world as a pattern of flat shapes, (back to the Newtonian scientific approach) and then seeing how those shapes interact (a responsive Goethe approach). One learns to place colors on a relative value scale (black to white), and on a relative saturation scale by comparing all the colors in a motif. Even with all those measurements, each person paints with a different set of colors because all the colors a relative and it all depends on your starting point.
Thanks for your wonderful video.
In my language (Vietnamese) we use the same word for blue and green, màu xanh. But when we need to be specific we would add a description to that word. For example green would be màu xanh lá or blue would be màu xanh da trời. Literally translate to xanh like leaf and xanh like the sky.
this is so underrated, wow - the way you explain it makes it easy to understand, and i find it so interesting!!!
This video was absolutely amazing! One can tell a lot of time and effort was put into this!
You're honestly one of my favorite TH-camrs yet! Thank you for the AI video, the far-right comments were really annoying and I'm glad you took a sassy approach to petty comments. This was a very interesting and thought video as wellm
Basically, different smart people have thought about different parts of human interaction with colour.
What a treat to have serious philosophy grounded in empirical evolution.
Well beyond color, this concept of co-determination between an animal and environment (and any and all forms of life, for that matter) is so difficult to articulate to people who don't come from a biology-focused background. Its actually one of the banes of my existence when interacting with others in STEM fields, because they're all so tunnel visioned in their studies that they tend to be extremely bad at grasping the bigger picture of almost anything! Even in their own fields! I get made fun of (in good humor) for being in such a "soft science" where "everything is always changing and you never know anything for certain" but it drives me crazy because... that's the WORLD we live in. That's how EVERYTHING works!
I fully understand what Darwin meant when he said "He who understands the baboon would do more for metaphysics than Locke" lmao. I constantly lament the lack of insight or understanding of the natural world that so many great minds have because it holds them back from so much they could have known. If you reject your place as a biological creature shaped by and shaping the environment around you, you will never understand anything fully!
As someone who did not go to high school and started studying biology in my late 30s, the amount of people that don't understand taxonomic nested hierarchies is stunning. I direct people to Aron Ra's 50 part series 'Systematic Classification of Life' all the time.
@@whatabouttheearth They probably know it, they just don't use the same lingo as you
6:18 i paused and while i was staring it helped me to notice that my screen was a bit dirty, thanks
13:04 damn this quote goes so hard 😭
I'm always amazed at how elaborate, philosophical and humanistic color descriptions are. For a humble engineer, eyes just have built in white balancing.
Didn’t understand a single word, this dude chill tho
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Good that i have the honor to be one of first subscribers to you before reaching millions in future
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Great video as always. Also how did you get that painting effect at 11:15?
Thank you! That effect was achieved with turbulent displace
@@duncanclarke Thank you
Awesome video. I can tell a lot of effort and research went into the script and editing. Quality end result!
Fascinating to think that I can now enjoy myself going to an art gallery, just because a seed from slightly brighter fruit was shidded by a monkey
this was genuinely a phenomenal video, perfect balance of so many features
when i learned the fact that if us humans have different types of cone cells we can see many more kind of colors, i wonder that if this kind of thing happens for the duration of an hour what would change about the perspective of our lives...
Dude I’ve gotta say this was a such great video, it deserved to do so much better but honestly man you just gotta keep posting stuff, your content is genuinely one of a kind and I love the way you’re able to break down these topics and talk about them You’re 100% gonna blow up and make it big I’m so sure of it
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Lol god damnit you know
Great video, and extra points for the B of C nod. 👍
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When the monkey poops, he's doing the fruits a "solid." :) @19:10
This whole video was fantastic, but your usage in that line was pure gold.
Hey bro I never comment on videos, but that was very well made! I respect that, keep it up!
Shapes! And colors is all I see! Entombed, Deftones
🍄 Trip and I was literally seeing shapes and colors when I closed my eyes
I've thought about this for a while and a great understanding came to me when I asked myself "why is water and air transparent?". It's obvious then that we evolved eyes sensitive in the band of frequencies at which both of these media in which we hunt and fish is transparent.
Videos like this are just so damn intriguing. It shocks me some people live their whole lives not questioning and wanting to know more about things as simple as color and perception in life. Like the reasoning of it, why it’s a thing, why we see it for what it is, just fascinating!
3:00 as a big orange lover I must say THAT LOOKS SO COOL
I am a mental health clinician and, in working with clients, particularly with mood disorders, enjoy challenging them to wear colors that flatter them but also elevate their mood. Nuances are helpful.
Very well made, informative and fun. I loved the visual examples, thanks!
This is fascinating!! So glad it came up on my feed
This was absolutely excellent. Thank you for explaining color in such a profound and eloquent way. Much love.
One of the most interesting thing I’ve seen so far! Thank you!!
I did not at all anticipate that this was where this video was gonna go, but it was fascinating... I'll give it that!
Didn't think that evolution would even mess with how we precieve colour, but here we are. XD
This is such an excellent video. Thanks for the great info!
I feel like there is a definition for colour outside of an observer. That being which wavelengths of light any given material reflects and absorbs. While I agree that perception and colour are intimately linked I do also believe there is an objective way to define colour
awesome video! the last thing about fruits and their seeds it's so beautiful, never imagine that that may be a reason of their colours
9:40 in this example, the physical phenomenon does macth the feeling . Our sense of temperature is based on heat transfer, if heat enters your hand you find it hot, and viceversa
This video is amazing and really opened my eyes to how effective color is, great job !
This is a fascinating and extremely well done summary of colour psychology. Well done!
Great video
Thanks for posting. I did my MA thesis in 1985 on the Newton/Goethe colour controversy and, as quantum physics was discovering at the time, it boiled down to observation versus participation and concluded that you can't have one without the other - but also revealed the bigger question, what is the nature of light?
Great video! Now that we've got the red=hot/blue=cold system figured out, I'd like to know if any progress has been made lately on working out why shower knobs at hotels are always flipped from how you're used to. It's kind of like the USB plugging thing.
Beautiful video. It was a pleasure. Thank you!
Your videos are epic, with the quality of your content I’m surprised to see your subscriber count so low… keep it up man I’m excited to watch your channel grow. I’ll get to tell my friends I subscribed before it was cool
This is fascinating!! Thank you for this deep dive!
Never seen a video but I subscribed because this essay is so good!
6:25
while doing a color study a while back, i noticed that once you desaturate a color, it looks like it's fading into its compliment. likely because two perfect compliments create a grey
As an artist and ex-physics student that have a science mind set, I used to perceive colors the physical way, and struggles because of that mind set, but throughout the years learning about color theories of art, I slowly sifted to the other side, now I know that what matters isn't what an object SHOLD be colored, but what it CAN be colored, don't stick to the object 'physical color', but considering more on the enviroment, the mood, the feeling, or the meaning of the art as a whole
There is a fascinating parallel here with the collapse of the quantum mechanical wave function which just like color relies on that measurement by an observer.
You got a subscriber. Absolutely mindblowing video, great work!
I put this on before a nap (no offense, I did come back to watch this while conscious lol) but I was actively drifting into a dream, like I’d say I was almost completely asleep, and you mentioned boards of Canada and my eyes flew open. I watched a video many years ago that mentioned boards of Canada, (part of me feels it was a solar sands video) I listened to them briefly but had since forgotten anything at all about the video and the band name - I only remember one album cover but it’s geogaddi which I didn’t even attempt to describe to google. Anyways, I’ve been waiting for the band name to pop up somewhere even though I’d only ever heard of it in the video and nowhere else since. I think it’s so interesting how I couldn’t have remembered it if I had a gun to my head, but while nearly unconscious hearing the name I instantly recognized it as the thing I’d been looking for.
Thank you for your videos. I have been watching stuff like this for years but other than Vsauce this is more thought provoking and eye opening than anything I've watched before.
I am a big Gibson fan. His wife also made major contributions in child development. You did a good job at representing the Gibson approach. My wife remains a Lockian.
Very interesting insight encompassing so many topics you can make dozens of videos or of it!
Wow! Very thought provoking. I’ll talk about colour with my clients in a different way now!
Just randomly remembered when I played this game called "my candy love" years ago. During april fools one year, the players were gifted with a black/blue & white/gold dress. Only problem was it was the same dress and would change colors randomly as you interacted with the game.
Note on timestamp 6:10, Violet and purple both fall within the category of purple. The complimentary color of green is red, not purple. So in other words the opposite of yellow is purple, the opposite of red is green, and the opposite of blue is orange.
Hey man I just wanna thank you… your videos have really had a effect on me I’ve listen to deathconsciousness so many times and it’s really really amazing thank you man