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[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Technically, all the colors are fake. They're just the halucinations of a brain trying to understand the input from sensory organs.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

That doesn't make them fake, in the same way that x can mean 2. You are merely representing a given value (in this case light within a certain electromagnetic spectrum) in a useful way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But is my red the same as your red? Hmmm?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

if two people can both point to red and agree that it's red, that's close enough. anything beyond that is just pointless esoteric debate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Some people see numbers instead/along with colors, and different people see different numbers, so I guess the colors might be different between people too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree that it's pointless. I think it may be beneficial to humanity (eventually) to establish whether or not there is an objective reality which we all experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

i agree, but that's a job for neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and psychology; not a pack of dorks on the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

it's more in the philosophy ballpark, which shapes the interpretration of methodology and the consequences, in my humble opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

But what if the dorks on the fediverse are scientists?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

then by all means

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But I want to contribute to humanity in a meaningful way!

-me, a dork on the Fediverse nearly incapable of contributing to humanity in a meaninful way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

buy guns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Working on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It was a joke?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

hahaha?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Ehehehe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I hadn't thought about it that way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, colors are real. And you see them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pink isn't real. There is no wavelength of light that is pink.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Its bright red, maybe toward purple! Brown is dark orange.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Light frequencies between blue and red don't exist.