• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    how the color is represented in the mental image you have in your head.

    That’s not a color, its an abstraction of a memory

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      It depends on the definition of “color”. For us humans, in our everyday life, the abstraction we have in our mind is more meaningful than the wavelength, which is what formally defines a color, but not how we cognitively perceive it

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        Yeah, pretty much all arguments about colour can be solved if you realise each side is using a different definition of the word “colour” out of the four or five common ones. It’s frustrating.

        Same with holes - people always bring out topology as if it wasn’t a super specialised piece of abstract math with barely any relation to anything physical.