The Philosophy of Color

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 don’t know how to explain this, but your videos are good enough to watch while eating. You don’t just throw something on willy nilly and waste food on 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.

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.

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!

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.

This is one of the best philosophy videos I’ve seen on youtube! So interesting, informative and well thought out yet easy to understand

I'm colorblind so I found this very interesting

This is one of the best philosophy videos I’ve seen on youtube! So interesting, informative and well thought out yet easy to understand 👏👏👏

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)

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.