+Naomi Gary What surprises me is that no one gave him a proper explanation... Water has no color (so ice has no color either), but it reflects light, so ocean seems to be blue.
+TheFithos that wouldnt be a proper answer too because the concept of color is that of reflection of light. Thats why there are many illusions made with light, like making a red object looks like its yellow or white, you can search it. Another proof of that is how cameras work and how you can play with colors, when in reality you are working with light. I think that water by itself has no color, but all the chemicals and whatnot makes it look like its blue, like, the things mixed in it, kind of like when there are greenish pools, brownish rivers and some other specials ones like colorful rivers because of the metals in it(mycroscopic).
Екатерина Гулецка nope, here's why he doesn't even see black: imagine that everybody has eyes in their elbows.. Do you see black from your elbows? Exactly.. You see nothing and you can't imagine it either...
Giving eyes to infants or people who lost their sight will become a thing. However, someone like this who was born blind wouldn't have the brain function to use any eyes and is not young enough to have neuroplasticity.
@@thorr18BEM This has actually been done iirc. You're correct, they don't quite work correctly, but they do work. They can kinda learn to function with them, tho it remains mostly a mess. Depth perception is never quite right, and making out objects is difficult. What we see is mostly symbolic representations of objects and is very different than the raw information from our eyes. Think of everything you see as symbols your brain creates for you with the information it has. That's why we see a lot of false positives. (I wonder if this would be a good way to explain sight to a blind person)
No not really as some blind people are blind as the optic nerves are nonexistent so its not really possible as its more complex that just having a bionic eye
@@michalblasko8740 you confuzzle me. First you state that there isn't a God when it has nothing to do with what he said. Secondly, you said that he is not going to heaven which connot be run without a god. Unless you think as if it's like the garden of Eden, then i see where you're coming from.
@@michalblasko8740 No, he used a common phrase used by many people. I personally am not religious however, i still use the term and they have an opinion they can belive whatever they want and you shouting God isn't real won't do anything
It is kind of at this point. It's going there. Few experimental treatments with artificial electronic sensors and wires instead of nerves allowed a blind person to have monochromatic light perception. Remember reading about it quite a few years ago.
it actually is pretty much there, there are robotic eyes that you can get if you are blind or at a point where you cant stop the eye from going blind. but it is expensive and not really past the testing stage.
Allison Rowley what a dumb comment. What blind person have you ever met said they'd rather not have sight? There are literally no advantages to not having sight.
Seeing different colors is like hearing different tones, but with your eyes instead of your ears. The same way you can make out specific sounds by their vibrations and patterns, we can make out specific colors. In this metaphor, brightness is like loudness. It works this way because light and sound are both different types of vibrations.
Erik Forbes Nice try! There is one problem with your explanation though. You can order tones from the lowest to the highest, but you can't do this with colors. If you happen to know the frequency of light that each color refer to, then you might be able to order colors - but you can't differentiate lower frequency of light from higher with just your eye (without any prior knowlage). You can do this with sound, at least if there is decent frequency difference between two tones.
Roland Völker I'd dispute a few of the things you say. There are some colours where it's hard to say,'this is blue or this is green. Also, the character of a colour IS relative to the colours it's with, (though it also could be said to be of a certain character that can be dictated by your mood). (I'm coming at this from an artists point of view). Also, I'd say that there are some notes that played alone, do have a certain character.
WMTeWu Technically you can... if you're talking about the visible light spectrum. The main difference between that and sound though is a deeper sound is evolutionarily relevant, the wavelength that light emits a specific color isn't.
I thought i saw some prototype device on the news a few years ago where they made a machine to act as like whatever this blind old persons was missing to make him blind, And he could see a very extremely blurry image with colour
That is really hard since the brain would have a Lot of trouble dealing with the New information. You "learn" to see since the day you are born, and It goes on for some time. When you get older, even If you get your eyes working, your brain might not be able to interprate that.
@@peterplaysbr You're absolutely right, in fact it's the same for deaf people, there's a video of a deaf couple who recovered hearing on older age and they hated the distraction it caused to them, so much that they turn off the device that allowed them to hear.
*sigh* whenever someone says "thank god", or anything NEAR that, a flame war goes on between people. "GOD doesn't EXIST!" "YES HE DOES!" "I respect religious beliefs, and so should you!" I've seen it all...
You know what makes my brain tie itself in a knot? Trying to understand how he imagines or thinks of objects. I mean, when someone says "big car" to me, I immediately visualize it. The more info, the clearer the image.Big, blue, rusty van. With a broken mirror.You "see" that, upon reading it, right? But how does he "see" it in his mind? Does his memory of having felt the shape of a car "paint a picture" of a shape that he recollects? How could it, when he has no concept of seeing any picture, ever.. Lets put it like this; if someone asks me to think of the shape of an object, I have no other way of thinking about it but visualizing it's shape.Think of three wooden unpainted, rough poles, in the shape of the letter H. Sure, you can imagine feeling the splinter-riddled surfaces and how you run your hands across the shape that forms and H.. But you can't stop yourself from visualizing it.. Can you? Just... I can't understand how something can be visualized, with no concept of visuals. His mind is as much a mystery to us as ours is to him on these matters
nope. he can think about how it feels smells and tastes that's it it's like you trying to think with a sense you dont have like sharks feels electricity
The best way I can describe the blue ocean versus blue sky issue is that you might be able to hit the same note on a piano key and guitar string, but they still clearly make their own distinct sound.
+styx85 Well, not really. A texture is a way of describing how something physically feels. So by saying you can see a texture, yes, you can see the patterns of that texture, but the literal texture itself is not meant for vision. It is reserved for the sense of touch.
Trying to understand what a color is when you're blind, is like trying to imagine a brand new color, that has never been seen before. It's annoying and impossible.
It is possible actually, you need to focus on either Red-green or yellow-blue. Focus one eye on something red, while the other is focused on something green. You might be able to combine the colors in your mind, and see a color known as an "impossible color". Try it.
Fun fact: pink isn’t supposed to exist. It’s a accident. Your eyes processes it between the red area and the green area so your brain basically makes up what we call pink.
@@CyricRO Then you're perceiving a so-called impossible color, such as pink or purple, but a different kind. Confusing the eyes doesn't create something new you've never seen before, it just creates something new through mixing things you've seen, which granted, would be pretty new for an individual, but right now we can't see any new colors because we've gone through the entire color spectrum.
@@miltongam5870 The key word to focus on is the word "imagine" - You may be tricking the eyes, but you're also tricking the mind. I can't imagine any colors I haven't already seen, but by use of the trick, I was able to imagine a color that was new.... At least, new to me.
They think in feelings, reactions and concepts. They sort of have their own internal language to think about things, though that language is made up of how things look, sound, feel, smell and taste. It would have to be that way. It's like when you think of something you don't have a name for. It's like your earliest memory when you were 2 years old. But even to remember back that far you had to have some language. That's why you don't remember being a baby. You learned language and rewired your brain, isolating yourself from those memories.
Thomas Solonyetski It is sad but for people like Tommy it’s normal I’m sure he would like to see but I’m sure he’s content with not seeing at the same time. It’s most sad for people who went blind after birth since they actually know what they are missing.
Whats interesting to me is how he’s very expressive with his face and gestures even though he has never seen another face ever, so we do it instinctively and not because we learned it 🤯
If you seek empathy for him, you can accomplish this somewhat by wearing a sleep mask for a day without cheating. It appears that you already sympathize with him and no one should ask any more of you.
In Vienna there is an "museum" called 'Dialog im Dunkeln'. You have to navigate through everyday obstacles like crossing the street but also rare stuff like getting on a boat. Everything is pitch black so you really can't see anything
No it is not fair because after the two days, you will be so satisfied to see again but him... He will be in a big depression asking himself why he is the one who have been punished at birth
Actually white is all the colors "smushed together" as he says. Black is the absence of color. But I'm talking about physics, light waves and everything, maybe he talks about colors like paint or something.
Actually, color in painting and color in physics are pretty much the same. You studied in your physics class that blacks objects observes all lights, so they don't reflect light in any frequency and thus we see "nothing", we see black. This concept is basically the same in painting; when you paint blue for example, every color is being absorbed except the blue spectrum, but when you mix it with red and yellow you kinda overlapped this characteristic, yellow and red do not reflect blue, and blue do not reflect yellow and red, and since we mixed then, we will have no lights reflected.
Oliviaa4404 Search up youtube for the video titled: *Rhyming orange with Eminem*. He said it drives him crazy that people claim there aren't words that rhyme with orange, because he can think of a lot of words that rhyme with it. Then gives examples.
@luca murro not the same thing. Sleeping and fainting is a loss of consciousness. Most accurate thing would be eyes closed in a dark room. So no light through the eyelids.
@@Mr_Glenn no he doesnt see black, he doesnt see at all, their is absolutely no picture coming to his brain and to recognize the black color, the black must go to his brain but it doesnt.
Someone contact this to him please This might help. You understand colors Grab two markers from the same pack. That have no patterns just solid. ( no writing on it -initials- or indentations). Now make up a reason for them to be distinguished.
Have a look at the F and J keys on your keyboard, they have bumps on them. Put your index fingers on those and you're on home row, without having to look at the keyboard at all. Also software exists that will read certain things aloud to you
I'd say colour is like the different textures of objects or different pitches of sounds: just makes some objects look different from others in the same way pitch and texture make things sound and feel different
pitch is probably the closest analogy you can make since pitch is also just different wavelengths... but i don't think it comes even close to explaining what color is. specially because our perception of sound is objective and of color is entirely subjective. mixing a 1000hz signal with a 2000hz signal won't make a 1500hz signal in our brain. mixing magenta and cyan (addictively) will give pink, which isn't even a real wavelength. pink doesn't exist, it's just how we interpret "white minus green".
a;so depending on your eyes you might see differnt colors, theirs differnt kinds of color blindness that prevent people from seeing some colors and instead see it as another, and then theirs some animals who can see more colors than humans can
I so much love how he smiles and laughs at everything. My fist music producer’s also born blind. Honestly he’s one of my favourite producer till date and I enjoy spending time with him but since I relocated, I missed him so much. You reminded me of him. Thanks for all you do. Good bless you.
It depends whether you are talking about light or pigment. White light is the presence of all visible clots of light and black is just the absence of light but it is voce versa for pigment or anything besides light that has color
ummm.... no... sorry but mixing purple, red, blue, and all those other dark colors.. well all colors are dark except yellow, does not make white lol impossible..... you're getting it confused with light. DARKNESS IS THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT. However, color is not light, it is only the refraction of light, NOT REFLECTION. therefore, white is the absence of colors. black is the combination. go mix some paint and see if it turns white in the end... only in your dreams...
I know this is late, but let's try it. If you had (1) grain of flour. You take away the powder and leave the smallest increment, you would say that nothing is there. That is water. It is usually blue, but to such a small degree that we say it is transparent like glass (similar thing, but green). When you gather a cup of flour together on the counter, you can clearly feel it and notice it, the ocean is the same way in that the water is thick enough and there is enough that the color becomes the more obvious feature and not the transparency. I know this probably won't help, or is too late to help, sorry. Also, colors are different, in the same way that you would call many different sounds under the category of "birds chirping." Many different colors are considered "blue." Ice and the sky are not typically the same color, but both are near enough that they fit under the category of "blue." I am enjoying your videos. Thanks for the channel and being so open.
KFishing his thoughts are just like ours, but the world we see, and colors are absent. It’s like asking what someone’s thoughts are in a 3D world from someone living in 4d world. We just haven’t been shown a 4d world so it can’t be in our mind.
If he were told to imagine something then I believe he would go to a memory if interacting with that object. The “image” would be more touch oriented than color or sight, if that makes sense.
I have to say I truly enjoy this channel. As a Deaf person who relies heavily on eyesight, this channel gives me some perspective on what it’s like not being sighted. Additionally, I can relate as far as the ridiculous questions people ask about my experience as a Deaf person. Keep up with the awesome content.
Emotions are all on sliding and moving scales, not a simple "I'm happy/sad/confused/etc" toggle. So colors having subtle shades actually fits your analogy pretty well (and yes, I used the correct "your").
Black is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color) Explanation: When there is no light, everything is black. Test this out by going into a photographic dark room. There are no photons of light. In other words, there are no photons of colors. White is the blending of all colors and is a color. Explanation: Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this. Fact: The sum of all the colors of light add up to white.
Sally Graves Sally stop embarrassing yourself please. You are wrong and I have already proven why. Go read my above posts. You are confusing the terms *light* and *color*. Light is additive in nature and color is subtractive. Do you know why a black T-shirt gets hot in the sunlight whereas a white t-shirt stays cool? Because that particular dye is absorbing all the light frequencies. The color of an object can be defined as the light left over after a frequency gets absorbed. Leaves and grass appear green because they are absorbing magenta colored light. Hence the color green is actually an object which has absorbed magenta light. Black therefore is the sum total of all absorption in other words all color. Remember, each color is the antagonist of the light being absorbed. This is why its subtractive in nature. A white shirt on the other hand reflects all light, therefore has no color.
are you also blind since birth? -- i feel like the most useful piece of information a sighted person could give about what vision is like is that a person's field of vision can be fit entirely onto a 2D flat surface (in fact, this is why things like photographs and computer screens can be flat, and why something like a jpeg file can have no depth whatsoever). equally important to understand though is that the points on this plane (which,, despite technically not being discrete, we can still basically think of as "pixels") that neighbor one another can be very close or even touching but will still manage to keep their own colors without anything blending into each other. (in this respect vision is very different from senses like hearing and smelling, where things just sorta merge and blur into one another. vision is inherently flat, and is inherently location-preserving. if i had to pick two qualities to describe it with, i think those are the two i'd say most capture the unique character of vision.) (as a quick clarification, i should point out that i realize that many people will call vision 3-dimensional, and might point out things like how 3D movies differ from regular movies in order to back this claim up. it's really not anywhere close to true though. vision is *completely* 2-dimensional in its nature, but because we receive two slightly different images at once (since each eye is slightly differently located) the brain is able to quickly compare and contrast the two images it receives moment by moment and create a sense of depth. 3D movies emulate this by interlacing shots from two slightly different-angled cameras, and then having viewers wear special glasses so that each eye sees a different shot. again though, like all other images, real or filmed, these images are themselves flat and can be fit onto a 2D cartesian plane. a person with only one eye will not get the effects of a 3D movie, and in general is not said to have "stereoscopic vision", but they too can still generate a sense of depth as they walk around or whatever, since the visual information they receive changes from moment to moment based on their movement, and provides new information from sides or angles of things that maybe weren't visible even just a tenth of a second earlier.) regarding colors,, the way in which a color like black differs from a color like red or turquoise or whatever isn't really the most interesting part about vision imo. effectively, those are just labels, which each point on this flat 2D field of vision can be marked with, allowing the brain to then group similarly colored neighboring "pixels" on this plane into shapes, thereby letting us make out different objects. the two most important thing to understand about colors, are 1. that the entire color spectrum can be arranged on a multi-dimensional continuum (in fact, something you might know is that colors like red and orange are kinda close to each other, which is why we can use terms like "reddish-orange", but that blue is very far away from them on the spectrum, which is why terms like "reddish-blue" or "bluish-orange" do not exist and would not be useful or make much sense), and 2. that any given point on this flat plane can only have *one* color, and in fact each point must have *at least* one color. something else i should probably almost certainly mention is that colors are really the *only* thing that can be seen. some people might say otherwise, and that there are other elements of vision like shading or texture or whatever. but in reality these things are just illusions that arise from complex patterns of colors placed next to one another. (again, we can see this by looking at something like a jpeg file. jpegs are fully capable of showing sunsets or whatever other complex image, and yet all they are is a bunch of rows and columns of pixels, where each pixel has exactly one specific color. there is no "texture" value in any of the pixels in a jpeg.) --- so, colors are not simply some "frill" of vision or something like that then, but rather, for all intents and purposes, colors *are* vision. without vision, a person obviously cannot experience colors, but it's equally as true that if a person can't see any colors, then on no level does it make sense to try to claim that they have vision. (it's no more possible to imagine vision without colors than it is to imagine the english language without letters. if someone were to say "i know english has vowels, and it has consonants, but what else does it have besides that?", then you could maybe make the case that other things can /arise/ from how you put the letters next to each other, but ultimately if you remove all the vowels and consonants from english then there's not really anything left. and the same is true with vision. if you were to remove all the colors, then there'd be nothing left. -- and in fact, you need to be able to see at least *two* colors to have vision, so that those two colors can contrast and make shapes. if a person could see only one color, then it would not be enough to be useful in any way. it would be like writing green text on a green background, which is impossible to read since there's no way to tell anything apart in such a scenario.) now,, there are also some things that are transparent, which realistically means that they have no color and therefore cannot be seen (and so, we see whatever's behind them instead). something like a dirty window could then be thought of as clear in some spots (the parts that are clean) but opaque in the other spots where it's dirty (which is why you can't see through those parts, because the dirt is opaque and in the way, and so that's what you end up seeing instead). because vision is inherently flat and 2-dimensional, it is not possible to simultaneously see a thing and see /through/ that thing. at every given point, it must be either one or the other., never both. (well,, i take that back. with something translucent, like a stained glass window, then you can partially see the window at a specific point /and/ partially see what's behind that point, because some light waves are getting through while others are being blocked, but that's a somewhat complex example to try to explain.) and i realize that this must sound extremely bizarre, that if a thing doesn't have color, then it can't be seen, and so instead the color of the thing /behind/ it is assigned to that point on the field of vision. but really, this is just a necessary consequence of the fact that the field of vision is 2-dimensional, and that every point must have one color and one color only. i would imagine that people who have been blind since birth operate in extremely 3-dimensional models of reality that their brains have constructed for them, and how unbelievably bizarre it must be then to realize that a sense like vision comes in these flat sheets (which can be handy enough to be able to capture a whole bunch of objects all at once without muddling any of them together, but at the same time be so limited as to only provide information about the /front sides/ of all of those objects). we cannot see behind things, or see around corners (in the way that one can hear, or even smell, around corners), and so it's a pretty different animal from those other senses, and yet this is the primary source of sensory information for the majority of people, which has no doubt had tremendous effects on how so many of us conceive of our surroundings. my guess would be that many sighted people (whether they realize it or not) internalize their vision as a sort of screen in front of them, and when asked to think about what they think it's like to be blind, might guess that it's simply like having that same screen in front of you except now it's blank. but of course, if you've never had vision, then you never had any reason to feel like there's some sort of flat screen in front of you that's simply failing to show you your life in a series of flat sheets. what i am completely uncertain about though, is how easy it is for a blind-since-birth person to think 2-dimensionally in this way. but if you /can/ imagine a flat screen in front of your face, and can keep in mind that the most important thing to realize about how this screen works is that each point can display any value of a certain specific category (and this category is of course "colors", but you can think of it as numbers or letters or anything really, just keeping in mind that the purpose is to be able to then group these points by like value, as to parse the screen up into shapes) but that at any given time must display exactly one value, then i think you will have a fairly developed concept of what vision is like as an experience.
maqueterobcn Yes... right! BUT... theoretically... if you see it blue is because it is blue! And from space if you see it black is because it is black... Color drives from perception, and perception depends on many factors that very rarely happen again in the exact same way. The blue you see is not always the same blue, so the difference from one blue to the other is the same from blue to black... they are different, always. It also means you are not seeing the same thing, or at least the same layers of the sky. Things have color but not because they "have" it... they have colors because of the reflexion of light. ALWAYS. So the case of the sky actually is applicable to everything... and generally people don't see it that way because of the simple fact that we know that the sky is blue from earth and dark from space, but that is no exception... that is the rule for everything but just in a very extreme example.
If you had a wall, and you drew on that wall, if it didn't have any texture how would you see the drawing? Something has to be different. That's what color is.
I'm pretty sure that he knows "what" colour is, but doesn't know how each colour "looks", what the differences are. He cannot really get a grasp of it because he doesn't have the senses to do it. It's like asking a brick to sum. It's just not gonna happen. For one the brick doesn't have the capability to sum, and furthermore, it doesn't even know that you're talking to it anyway because it's not a living thing.
I'd wish there was something that would make him see and they get his reaction and share it. It's so weird to think missing a sense could be this different. I'd be frustrated if I knew I was missing one sense..
ez poison Yeah, I've been thinking about that lately but I just can't imagine another sense, sure there must be, but a sense is literally inexplicable as you can see. This guy doesn't get how the sea could have anything to do with the sky.
+TheEtherny There are lots of videos on da net of blind people getting eye donations. And of color-blind people putting on those Chroma glasses and see color for the first time. Oh, and ifcourse death people getting chochliar implants.
Colors are indeed hard. I am colorblind. When I need a suit, I need someone else to choose for me or else the colors will not match. Which for some reason seeing some combination of color next to each other gives people a headache just like some sounds could give you.
I don't know if it even makes sense to comment on a blind person's comment but, i can try to explain it. It's like the two things dont match, like a puzzle that doesnt fit, it's just wrong. While it doesn't do anything to someone to see an "ugly" colour combination, it isn't pleasant, as in, you prefer something else to what is shown, or to what that person is wearing, it's like someone insults your favourite film, animal or anything really.
Gosh, tell me about it, I'm colorblind and I'm a girl. I'm 17 and I still have to get my mom to fact-check that my outfit matches, and trust that she isn't lying to me. Maybe I've spent my whole life mismatched and no one's had the heart to tell me
Jason Nosaj That's not completely false but also not actually true. You have cones in your eyes, which interpret the colors you perceive. But the number of cones you have are way less than the number of colors we perceive. So certain combinations of wave lengths trigger multiple cones. Let's say cone 1, 2 and 3 will make you see red. Missing cone 1 makes you see a completely different color like green. Colorblind people are missing a number of cones, depending on how many you miss and which one you miss that makes it differ how severe of a colorblindness you have. There isn't really 3 types of colorblindness there are thousands but most of them can be generally be put in 3 categories. Blue, red and green. There is also the variant of missing all the cones making you unable to see color at all. You don't have cones at the side of your eyeballs, so you can test that by closing 1 eye and trying to see what color an object just on the edge of your field of vision. I'm red green colorblind but this also makes it so that certain variants of blue is purple for me and vice versa. Matching clothes is a hell. That''s why you more than often need help with it from someone else or try to not wear colors at all. So black or white. There is also the problem of certain colors being invisible for me because I miss all the cones to perceive it. Like when I look at a bush of red roses, I can't see the roses. They are literally invisible. Some happens on websites with a big red warning. I can't see it. This really depends on the color surrounding it. My brain the fills it in with that color. If there is something like white surrounding it. It just looks grey to me.
Ocean is blue the same reason as mirror is green. You can see through small amounts of water, but you cant look through large ocean. It becomes blue in our eyes. Same happens when you put mirror against a mirror. It becomes tinted green.
Color is like musical notes, we associate higher pitches with happy things and lower pitches with sad things, we associate bright colors with happy things and dark colors with sad things, of course this isnt true on every level but it's the closest thing I can think of.
Everything is in the association, the only thing that he can do to explain something that he never has been able to see such as colors is association. He doesn't necessary associates black or white as something happy or sad, he just associate it with the closest concept he has, like the red with the stoplight.
I'd say the best way to describe colour would be to compare it to sound. Both are a continuous spectrum of waves with different frequencies, so a colour could be compared with a particular pitch on the spectrum of sound frequencies. All pitches are sound, but isolated, have an immediately noticeable quality distinct from other pitches adjacent to them on the spectrum. Colour is still light, but when a particular colour is isolated, it has a quality to it that makes it distinct from other pitches/colours on the spectrum of light (which looks exactly like a rainbow, or takeshi 69's head)
black is probably the easiest to explain, but not perfect, as just try to see out the back of your head, you can't even see the color black... just nothingness. but black is the closest to nothingness which is probably how he "sees".
If you keep adding colors to your paint, you'll get black. That's called subtractive synthesis. If you keep adding colors to a spotlight, you'll get white. That's called additive synthesis.
i would say black and white dont really have much to do with color, they are both the absence of color, they have more to do with light and dark, forexample if you mix a bunch of paint to gether you might get black but thats less becuase of the colors mixing and more becuase it just keeps getting darker and darker untill the color no longer remains
Wow, the conversations on this channel are so mind-blowing. I wish Tommy would start making videos again! His entire channel has made me think about and attempt to interpret so many concepts that myself and other sighted people have never had to think about. It is interesting because Tommy talks about how he basically cannot comprehend the concept of sight but his way of "seeing" is not ever fully understood by a sighted person, either. Sighted people can try to imagine what being blind would be like, but there is no way for them to really know HOW to imagine it. Our interpretations of blindness are all based off of perception essentially based off of things we have already seen. Its pretty amazing to think about his concept of beauty, too. He truly sees people for who they are and I think that is why he is so pure and kind. I view things way differently after watching his videos and I love how much I actually enjoy learning and thinking while watching them. He has a charming way of making you smile and truly appreciate life. Awesome, inspiring man.
Hi Tommy! I think the best way to describe the concept of color to you is to compare it to sound pitch. Light is like a kind of sound that you can feel with very high precision, so you can feel the location points where every sound is going from at the same time. Any object produces sound by every small piece, and this allows you to feel the shape, like you touch every piece at the same time. So eyes are kind of ears that also used as hands to feel the shape of objects. Two eyes gives you ability to feel the object from slightly different sides at the same time like you use two hands. Red is a very low pitch, green is a middle pitch, blue is a very high pitch, black is silence, and white is loud noise. That's all. What do you think about this, is this simple enough? Of course you still can't feel colors, but you can imagine this like another kind of sound that you distinguish from normal sound. I think this explanation is very close to the light and color nature.
The thing you said about Black & White is the Exact opposite Black is the absence of color & White is every color in one. I know you’re blind & you won’t see this, but i just thought i would put it out there
+Jake MacTosh ok but, what COLOR really is is the light itself. not the pigment. when you mix all the paints together they stop reflecting any light and that is by they are black.
Puffa Fish Large chunks of old, compact ice without air bubbles is blue; *_very_* blue. It is blue for the same reason large bodies of water are blue, water molecules absorb red light.
I think the best way to describe it is the same as low-pitch sound (BASE) against high pitch sound (BEEP). The Red color is in the longest wavelength before it becomes Infra-Red (Invisible to humans), Violet is in the shortest wavelength before it becomes Ultra Violet (Invisible to Humans). All the other colors are in between. Sound also has a long wavelength 20Hz (Anything lower we can't hear) and then high pitch sound which as short wavelength (20 Khz). So the difference in color can be the same as the difference in sound wavelengths as well. The combination of all the colors can let make nice paintings. The same way as different wavelength of sound can make nice music.
Exactly how this blind guy AKA me sees it. Only I know that the visible light spectrum runs from 380 or 400 nanometers to about 800 nm which is almost an octave or a bit more depending on what source you read. I have a friend who claimed he could see the light from his tv remote at 940 nanometers a little bit if he put the censor right up to his eye, but that was in the 80s, he cince lost all his vision due to an accident, and he liked to BS a lot so I can't be sure if he could really see it. So take the notes from middle C to the next C up and you have an audible equivalent of the visible light spectrum. But the human eye can distinguish millions of colors within that range. Those colors are based on frequency, amplitude and purity as I understand it, so not sure how many colors that would be if you only considered the frequencies and not the other variables. We can only distinguish maybe a few hundred steps within a single audible octave of sound, and human culture only uses 24 of those for music at the most (Arabic music uses 24 tones). Multiply that number by the amplitude steps we can distinguish at each pitch, and the range of pure notes VS. white noise and maybe you get millions? So you think of colors like pink which I imagine to be a strong middle c surrounded by white noise at all other frequencies within the octave, AKA pink noise. The brighter the pink, the stronger the overall sound you hear. The louder middle c is in comparison with the rest of the pitches, the redder it is. As I understand it, pink is reddish white. Pink is the color of health, so it gets a wellknown color name unlike bluish white and yellowish white I suppose. Black would be a thin white noise sound, followed by the shades of grey as louder white noise until you get to white, the loudest white noise. I imagine dark blue as that quiet white noise accented with the A above middle c poking out a little from the noise. What confuses me though is why dark blue and dark purple are often confused with black, but dark red is not. But I know the eye doesn't see the same way as the ear hears. The eye has only 3 flavors of color detectors called cones, which register red, green and blue and must work together to get the other colors, and rods that can't distinguish colors but see in black and white and shades of grey. Physics tells me that one octave of spectrum whether acoustic or electromagnetic is much like another, but the way the brain processes each one means that that octave of light can be so much more interesting than just one octave of sound would be. If you played color swatches in an octave of sound as I described above it would probably be pretty boring, but scientifically interesting to a blind guy who took a few courses in school and knows a bit of physics like me. There are programs like Audio Paint, but it uses pitch to show up and down, not color if I remember right. A color detecting program that played the colors as I described above might be somewhat useful. But on a multicolored surface you'd have to be able to pinpoint a small area at a time or the App would get confused, as phone apps that speak the color already do now.
Actually that explains nothing because you are missing some key facts about color. Color is not light and doesnt exist outside of our brains. There is no color in physics. Color is just a biological thing. Color is just the thing you experience when you see light. To elaborate further, one of the first things that you will know if you searched about how we see color is that there are 3 types of cones in our eyes (often erroneously named the red and green and blue cones) These cones send 3 signals to the brain for it to process.(I know that this is overly simplistic and has many things left out but this is enough for my point). So color is the values of three signals while light is characterized by its wavelength. This is why color is not in physics as the perception of color has nothing to do with light, its just a perception. When you say how colors can be used to make nice paintings, you didnt say why it will make the paintings look nice. People with amusia have ears that work perfectly well yet they still dont derive enjoyment from music. its much more complex than that.
Shawn Klein I recommend that you learn about the chromaticity diagram seeing that you are blind and so interested in understanding what color is due to me seeing your wall of text. I want to say knowing that you might know this that that while it might be true that the eye can see millions of colors, the eye only sees that much in the sense that it could send that many combinations of signals. We are actually consciously aware of far less. I will leave it you if you want to know to search how many colors we are aware of.
The ocean isn't totally clear, as it contains salt it causes clouding, however the colour blue comes from the reflection of the sky, hence on a cloudy day the sea looks grey and dull.
First of all, you are awesome! I would be miserable if I ever lost my sight but you really show that you can live to the fullest without that sense. But the reason I am commenting (which I usually never do), is to answer to some questions you seemed to have. I think that all the people trying to explain colour to you, have made it even more complex of a concept. As you said it yourself - its just another thing experienced by a sense like sound. And as with sound, you can mix it all together. Red isn't fire. It's like saying animal is cat. It could be... But it is so much more. Fire is red. But it could be orange and yellow and even white or blue... And almost every other colour. But red is what the fire is the most, i guess... Or what we remember the best, because we are taught to. Cold is not blue. Cold does not have a colour. We say that blue is a cold colour, because that is again what we are taught to. I guess if a child is taught from the beginning that blue is the warmest colour ever, he/she would grow up thinking just that. And things tend to turn blue in cold, like lips and all.. Clear water is colourless, not blue. But the surface of water reflects light and colour like a mirror. So the ocean is blue because it reflects the colour of the sky. But rivers can be brown and green and everything, because of the chemicals or things in it. Perfect ice is transparent like clear water. But if you scratch it, it flakes like snow, you can feel it with your touch. And those flakes have different properties, like structure and colour - those are white-ish. Like snow. I dont think that ice is blue. That's just another association with that cold thing. Well, unless it reflects the sky again. There might be a colour but it has different shades and hues. And orange is orange indeed, but I have read, that the colour was named after the fruit, not the other way around, which is curious. And eminem disagrees - there is a video available in youtube of him rhyming orange :D Black and white are so opposite, that they are almost the same. When you mix all the colours, by using paint, you get black.. You can never get white by that, because it needs to have no colour. BUT when you mix light as in the wavelenghts, white is the combination of all the colours and black is the absence of light. So writing all that i think i might have made it all even more complex, but thats just some thoughts i had about your short video. :)
I mean, what people often don't realise is how much our sense of colour is affected by what we are told. So when I started taking art classes, one of the first things i was told was to stop thinking what the colour of this or that is, and start looking at it. Most of people say that tree trunk is brown. Well, it kind of never is the shade they would paint it. When observing closer, it might be more greenish or blackish, but everybody says: Brown!
I think it's really nice you tried to explain it to him. Actually BLUE is warmer than RED. Blue has more energy. But put some metal in the fire and it will glow red, that's because the heat is breaking the limits of infrared and becoming visible as red light. So while infrared is warm, ultraviolet is way more powerful.
I think the best way to explain color is to compare it to sound, like high frequency color is purple, and low is red, and compare it to High frequency sounds, and low frequency sounds
It's just like a bee - if it could talk - trying to explain to us what ultraviolet looks like. That's a "colour" that we just cannot fathom but bees can actually see it.
+Akira Uema not really anything like it...we can perceive color. When we close our eyes...we see black...he doesnt even have that. It's a useless thing called eyes and he doesnt know what seeing is. A bee would have something to go on...possibly something to relate it to. Blind is blind. No concept of what a color even is.
+Snakedoctor O'Reilly I understand what you've said. Indeed, we grasp the concept of colour whereas he doesn't. Perhaps I cannot imagine what is to not see.
Akira Uema Thats just it...no one can unless they've been there. Even people that havent always been blind cant really fathom it...because their brains have experienced it, and now they have memories of what it's like. Someone who was blind from birth doesnt even understand what sight it.
Pepe Is Love, Pepe Is Life Look at what you just said...he "SEES" black...that's all he "SEES". No...it's not. He "sees" nothing. He has no sensation of what black even is. His optic nerve and occipital lobe don't work at all. Meaning it's not like a dark room. It's nothing. No black, no dark. Just nothingness.
I don't know if someone pointed that before on the comments here. But is the opposite, black is the absence of color and white is all the colors together. Not that it would help you with anything useful, but just saying.
that depends if u r talking about 2d or 3d. 3d is the absence of light (like in a dark room), white is light. on 2d if u mix all the colors together, you get rich black. the absence of color on a 2d surface is white. both of u are right, it just depends on what dimension u r referring to
@@gabbyg213 No, that is not how it works. Light even existing in a 2D surface is debatable, however if one could perceive light as a 2D thing it would still have colors and absence would be black.
Hi Tommy, we humans are lazy! The blue of ice is very different than the blue of the sky, we call both blue because we don't want to memorize more terms, and because they are similar enough to fit the term blue. Oh, and because we don't want to argue about it enough to be specific. Like Eskimos have a hundred words for snow because of its differences, we should have many words for blue, but we don't, because we are lazy, and because we want to focus on really important matters; like famous people whom lack talent.
Don't be so negative. People were using the word 'blue' for all shades of blue long before the whole celebrity culture came about. Anyway, we do have separate terms for all of this, we have different types of blue; sky blue, baby blue, navy blue etc.
Yes, of course you are right! We do have a myriad of terms for the precision minded to denote the subtle distinctions of color. Also, I did not intend to infer that talentless reality show celebrities single handedly degraded our descriptive color terminology, along with their other rich social contributions. Indeed, it was long before mediocrity became the recipe for notoriety that the majesty of the visual spectrum became "a bunch of colors". Mostly, I just jumped on an opportunity to deliver some cheap social commentary, sorry. At the time I guess I was feeling a little blue!!
I can see how you interpret my statement that way, but no, Tommy is included in we humans. If he could see he would probably also be lazy about color specificity.
Pondga Dobcool he was taking paint. But what you're saying is still correct but in the subject of talking light waves. Paint is the opposite. Annoying right?
depending on what kind of colors you're talking about. if you're talking about light, white is all the colors mixed into 1 and black is the utter absence of color. with paint colors. black is created by putting all the colors together. but even when u do that u still dont get a straight black. u can get close to it tho. i believe white is actually the same both ways. because in order to get white you need all the colors.
If I had blind children, I would explain colors to them by using fruit. I would give them a lemon and let them touch it and smell it and taste it and I would say 'That is yellow'. And I would do the same with all the fruits I could - oranges for orange, cherries for red, apples for green... That way they could enjoy colors as sighted people do.
The ocean is blue because the water reflects the sky, which is blue. But when you have a small amount and you are close to it, it doesn’t seem to reflect much and is mostly transparent.
@@vibaj16 The water is in fact not colorless; even pure water is not colorless, but has a slight blue tint to it, best seen when looking through a long column of water. ... Rather, water blueness comes from the water molecules absorbing the red end of the spectrum of visible light.
"how can the sky and ice be the same color" wow never thought about how confusing that is to a blind person
+Naomi Gary
...because it is the same thing
+VicariousReality7 lol ur pic is an eye XD
+Naomi Gary What surprises me is that no one gave him a proper explanation... Water has no color (so ice has no color either), but it reflects light, so ocean seems to be blue.
+TheFithos that wouldnt be a proper answer too because the concept of color is that of reflection of light. Thats why there are many illusions made with light, like making a red object looks like its yellow or white, you can search it. Another proof of that is how cameras work and how you can play with colors, when in reality you are working with light. I think that water by itself has no color, but all the chemicals and whatnot makes it look like its blue, like, the things mixed in it, kind of like when there are greenish pools, brownish rivers and some other specials ones like colorful rivers because of the metals in it(mycroscopic).
+Naomi Gary To a regular person also, but both would probably understand as much if they hear about waves and different length makes different color
I would give my last penny to see the look on this man's face if I were able to somehow cause him to experience even one color.
Cole you can with color blind people; you can buy them a certain kind of glasses, but unfortunately not for blind people
I guess he sees black
Екатерина Гулецка he doesn't see that either
Екатерина Гулецка nope, here's why he doesn't even see black: imagine that everybody has eyes in their elbows.. Do you see black from your elbows? Exactly.. You see nothing and you can't imagine it either...
Would you give your own sight?
If robotic eyes become a thing, this guy, and everyone like him, deserve it.
Giving eyes to infants or people who lost their sight will become a thing. However, someone like this who was born blind wouldn't have the brain function to use any eyes and is not young enough to have neuroplasticity.
@@thorr18BEM This has actually been done iirc. You're correct, they don't quite work correctly, but they do work. They can kinda learn to function with them, tho it remains mostly a mess. Depth perception is never quite right, and making out objects is difficult.
What we see is mostly symbolic representations of objects and is very different than the raw information from our eyes. Think of everything you see as symbols your brain creates for you with the information it has. That's why we see a lot of false positives. (I wonder if this would be a good way to explain sight to a blind person)
No not really as some blind people are blind as the optic nerves are nonexistent so its not really possible as its more complex that just having a bionic eye
Apple Glasses.
*Just posting this comment as proof of my sight of the future.
@@thorr18BEM Are you sure of that?
God we’ve got to appreciate our eyesight
Indeed.
idon tgetit noob
@@michalblasko8740
You sound hurt
@@michalblasko8740 you confuzzle me. First you state that there isn't a God when it has nothing to do with what he said. Secondly, you said that he is not going to heaven which connot be run without a god. Unless you think as if it's like the garden of Eden, then i see where you're coming from.
@@michalblasko8740 No, he used a common phrase used by many people. I personally am not religious however, i still use the term and they have an opinion they can belive whatever they want and you shouting God isn't real won't do anything
Imagine a colour that nobody has ever seen before and describe it.
Great perspective to explain the blind's vision!
New kind of cells in retina!
Blue mixed with the number 57. That's the colour I just imagined. Boom.
Yellow, but it smells cold. There's another one. Boom, roasted.
@@chriss2122 that is just piss in the snow 😂
How can sky and ice be the same color?
Damn...
Physics: hold my beer
BLΔCK SPΔCE ice is transparent though lol
HowToCameron The sky is also transparent
@@HowToCameron2 brain cells have just been murdered my guy
@@noppio9487 what?
A blind person trying to understand color is like a sighted person trying to understand how birds can sense cardinal direction. You just... *cant.*
Bruh English please
Hey Dude Faris it is bruh
Faris Mahdawi you fuckin stupid?
that's an awesome analogy
I can
I watch Rick and Morty
As a blind person, how were you told what “see” means? How can you imagine what anything would look like and what the word see means
By feeling things and imagining it
How did you choose your profile picture?
He will answer your question as soon as he reads it
that one guy ok thanks
Necrow they can’t imagine it because they have no sense of what it would be like
I feel trapped trying to think about his perspective
cover one eye
Dagra, As a blind person I feel freaked out trying to imagine your perspective LOL
He feel trapped trying to think about our perspective
If I asked you to look behind you without turning your head what would you see
That's how I imagine blind people "see"
i hope one day technology will come to a point where sight can be given to the blinded
It is kind of at this point. It's going there. Few experimental treatments with artificial electronic sensors and wires instead of nerves allowed a blind person to have monochromatic light perception. Remember reading about it quite a few years ago.
First Name many blind people don't want to have sight.
it actually is pretty much there, there are robotic eyes that you can get if you are blind or at a point where you cant stop the eye from going blind. but it is expensive and not really past the testing stage.
Allison Rowley what a dumb comment. What blind person have you ever met said they'd rather not have sight? There are literally no advantages to not having sight.
Wade Vandoloski ever heard of daredevil?
We can see this man but he has no idea what he looks like
Too rated
even more interesting is, that he doesnt even know what humans and everything existing looks like
@@c_e_n_t_ how schould he visualize it when he doesent know what vision is
@@strikeb1t damn
@@strikeb1t DEUTSCHLAND
"Nothing rhymes with orange."
Eminem: Hold my four inch door hinge
Orphanage
This comment is elite
Top ten broke ass people who steal other people's comments
@@swaroop7021 I actually never looked at the comments before I wrote this ya pissbrain
@Jonathan Thompson eminem sings a poem which rhymes with orange and this line is in that
Seeing different colors is like hearing different tones, but with your eyes instead of your ears. The same way you can make out specific sounds by their vibrations and patterns, we can make out specific colors. In this metaphor, brightness is like loudness. It works this way because light and sound are both different types of vibrations.
Erik Forbes Nice try! There is one problem with your explanation though.
You can order tones from the lowest to the highest, but you can't do this with colors. If you happen to know the frequency of light that each color refer to, then you might be able to order colors - but you can't differentiate lower frequency of light from higher with just your eye (without any prior knowlage). You can do this with sound, at least if there is decent frequency difference between two tones.
WMTeWu I hadn't considered that, but you're right. =) Good catch!
You are good at explaining. I'd give you that.
Roland Völker I'd dispute a few of the things you say. There are some colours where it's hard to say,'this is blue or this is green. Also, the character of a colour IS relative to the colours it's with, (though it also could be said to be of a certain character that can be dictated by your mood). (I'm coming at this from an artists point of view). Also, I'd say that there are some notes that played alone, do have a certain character.
WMTeWu Technically you can... if you're talking about the visible light spectrum. The main difference between that and sound though is a deeper sound is evolutionarily relevant, the wavelength that light emits a specific color isn't.
Blind: nothing rhymes with orange
Eminem: hold my beer
Dieu i put my orange door hinge in storage and ate porridge with goridtchdge
blind guy might be able to describe Db to a tone deaf guy.
Dieu Eminem does a lot of ‘almost’ rhyming tho’. 😊
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I referred back in my head to that interview with eminem when he pulled out a stack of written rhymes haha
I hope this man gets his sight at some point in his life. He's in for a BIG SHOCK. A pleasant one but a big shock.
So you could say he's in for an unsuspected surprise, but a welcome one?
What's interesting is that he seems perfectly comfortable with his blindness.
@@serene5345 He's comfortable with because that's all he knows. It's normal for him
I swear I thought they invented a vr set looking googles that can connect to your mind and let you see.
MisterTwister Good time to interject Palpatine, but I think you could've phrased it better.
color is like the tasting of seeing, it just gives objects extra “Flavor” instead of being dull.
That is the best description I’ve found of it
boo
👍
He wouldnt understand the concept of dull either
@awesomeness7543 Yes he can. Sound can be dull, taste can be dull.
When science gets advanced enough, they need to show this guy colors or atleast let him see, life changing stuff right there
so another 50 years?
I thought i saw some prototype device on the news a few years ago where they made a machine to act as like whatever this blind old persons was missing to make him blind, And he could see a very extremely blurry image with colour
That is really hard since the brain would have a Lot of trouble dealing with the New information.
You "learn" to see since the day you are born, and It goes on for some time. When you get older, even If you get your eyes working, your brain might not be able to interprate that.
@@peterplaysbr You're absolutely right, in fact it's the same for deaf people, there's a video of a deaf couple who recovered hearing on older age and they hated the distraction it caused to them, so much that they turn off the device that allowed them to hear.
He will be like "bro ice isnt blue, yalls are blind af"
watching this video makes me feel how blessed i am to have all the senses working normally.thanks god
looks like god doesnt like this guy....
***** ????
*sigh* whenever someone says "thank god", or anything NEAR that, a flame war goes on between people.
"GOD doesn't EXIST!"
"YES HE DOES!"
"I respect religious beliefs, and so should you!"
I've seen it all...
Miner Kitten same
Same
You know what makes my brain tie itself in a knot? Trying to understand how he imagines or thinks of objects. I mean, when someone says "big car" to me, I immediately visualize it. The more info, the clearer the image.Big, blue, rusty van. With a broken mirror.You "see" that, upon reading it, right? But how does he "see" it in his mind? Does his memory of having felt the shape of a car "paint a picture" of a shape that he recollects? How could it, when he has no concept of seeing any picture, ever.. Lets put it like this; if someone asks me to think of the shape of an object, I have no other way of thinking about it but visualizing it's shape.Think of three wooden unpainted, rough poles, in the shape of the letter H. Sure, you can imagine feeling the splinter-riddled surfaces and how you run your hands across the shape that forms and H.. But you can't stop yourself from visualizing it.. Can you?
Just... I can't understand how something can be visualized, with no concept of visuals. His mind is as much a mystery to us as ours is to him on these matters
There are also people who can see but don't have the ability to visualize things in their heads.
Herkko Koskinen it's the same as being deaf and talking to your self. How would that work. .
Herkko Koskinen he can I guess visualize in his mind the shape of the car but the whole car is blackened out because that's the cooler his ever known
Watch his video titled "How Blind People Dream," might give you some answers to your question.
nope. he can think about how it feels smells and tastes
that's it
it's like you trying to think with a sense you dont have like sharks feels electricity
The best way I can describe the blue ocean versus blue sky issue is that you might be able to hit the same note on a piano key and guitar string, but they still clearly make their own distinct sound.
color is like texture but for your sight.
Good try, but we can see texture as well.
+styx85 Well, not really. A texture is a way of describing how something physically feels. So by saying you can see a texture, yes, you can see the patterns of that texture, but the literal texture itself is not meant for vision. It is reserved for the sense of touch.
+Geometry Dash ViViD well, at least for me anyway, it's easy to tell what the texture of something is just by looking at it
PEScharlie But then you're converting sight into touch, which still implies that that specific texture is still meant for touch itself.
Sorry, he couldn't read that.
Trying to understand what a color is when you're blind, is like trying to imagine a brand new color, that has never been seen before. It's annoying and impossible.
It is possible actually, you need to focus on either Red-green or yellow-blue. Focus one eye on something red, while the other is focused on something green. You might be able to combine the colors in your mind, and see a color known as an "impossible color". Try it.
Fun fact: pink isn’t supposed to exist. It’s a accident. Your eyes processes it between the red area and the green area so your brain basically makes up what we call pink.
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That's also true for purple.
@@CyricRO
Then you're perceiving a so-called impossible color, such as pink or purple, but a different kind.
Confusing the eyes doesn't create something new you've never seen before, it just creates something new through mixing things you've seen, which granted, would be pretty new for an individual, but right now we can't see any new colors because we've gone through the entire color spectrum.
@@miltongam5870 The key word to focus on is the word "imagine" - You may be tricking the eyes, but you're also tricking the mind.
I can't imagine any colors I haven't already seen, but by use of the trick, I was able to imagine a color that was new.... At least, new to me.
I wonder how a person who doesn't know any sort of language thinks
Ding ding ding!!!
How do reptiles think?
@Crame4Xc In sounds, images, smells and touch.
They think in feelings, reactions and concepts. They sort of have their own internal language to think about things, though that language is made up of how things look, sound, feel, smell and taste. It would have to be that way. It's like when you think of something you don't have a name for. It's like your earliest memory when you were 2 years old. But even to remember back that far you had to have some language. That's why you don't remember being a baby. You learned language and rewired your brain, isolating yourself from those memories.
Crame4Xc they’d be a retarded, you need language for your brain to function.
read helen keller's biography. she was blind and deaf from an illness at the age of 2 or 3. forgot a lot about those few words she had learned.
I’d give up sight for a year to let this man see for a day.
That’s nice of you
you have a strong heart then
Yes i was thinking you are so very noble for that comment.
that's amazing
you have good heart
Oh my god this guy is just so precious, what did humanity do to deserve him.
Nigga sat and talked ab colors for a few minutes.
he deserves a chance to see
every blind person does, like every deaf person deserves to hear and talk
its 2018 and we still dont have the tech for this???
Alice I know right like therr is some advances but you'd think it would be faster :\
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Thomas Solonyetski It is sad but for people like Tommy it’s normal I’m sure he would like to see but I’m sure he’s content with not seeing at the same time. It’s most sad for people who went blind after birth since they actually know what they are missing.
Way to go, orange. Way to be involved in poetry and songs. LOL
He obviously hasn't listened to Eminem
Primaski haha... my thoughts exactly. “Set to blow college dorm rooms of the hinges... oranges, peach pears plums...”
“I put my orange, four-inch, door hinge in storage and ate porridge with George”. -E
:(
syringe
Whats interesting to me is how he’s very expressive with his face and gestures even though he has never seen another face ever, so we do it instinctively and not because we learned it 🤯
I wish he and me could switch bodies for 1 or 2 days for us to see or feel how it is to see and be blind
If you seek empathy for him, you can accomplish this somewhat by wearing a sleep mask for a day without cheating. It appears that you already sympathize with him and no one should ask any more of you.
Or bionic eyes
In Vienna there is an "museum" called 'Dialog im Dunkeln'. You have to navigate through everyday obstacles like crossing the street but also rare stuff like getting on a boat. Everything is pitch black so you really can't see anything
it's easy for a person to experience blindness, but it would be cool for him to be able to experience sight.
No it is not fair because after the two days, you will be so satisfied to see again but him... He will be in a big depression asking himself why he is the one who have been punished at birth
This guy is so positive. I loved this and hearing his point of view
would he knows he is blind if no one told him that?
no
Of course, he would know if he can't see
... stupidest question ever
i guess he wouldnt..if he lived in a world where theres no mentionning of eyes and sight. he wld think hes normal like everyone else.
+Burgo But then he wouldn't know what seeing was like. He wouldn't know that he was any different.
He seems so happy and sympathy. He's making jokes about his blindness and still enjoy the life. Much respect to this guy for being so cool with.
He's blind, not dead.
Actually white is all the colors "smushed together" as he says. Black is the absence of color.
But I'm talking about physics, light waves and everything, maybe he talks about colors like paint or something.
Yep, colours of light and colours of paint are entirely different.
Physics? You mean optics?
Luke I said physics because I learned about optics in physics class :)
Actually, color in painting and color in physics are pretty much the same. You studied in your physics class that blacks objects observes all lights, so they don't reflect light in any frequency and thus we see "nothing", we see black. This concept is basically the same in painting; when you paint blue for example, every color is being absorbed except the blue spectrum, but when you mix it with red and yellow you kinda overlapped this characteristic, yellow and red do not reflect blue, and blue do not reflect yellow and red, and since we mixed then, we will have no lights reflected.
Josev Mixing the colours, primary colours, etc. are different.
"Way to go orange." 😂😂
Oliviaa4404 Search up youtube for the video titled: *Rhyming orange with Eminem*. He said it drives him crazy that people claim there aren't words that rhyme with orange, because he can think of a lot of words that rhyme with it. Then gives examples.
MrHardCash he bended words to make it sorta rhyme so it's not really rhyming
"Sporange" rhymes with it.
Wait he sees black right?
Or does he see that photoshop empty squares pattern?
@@UltraPazozo interesting, i've been doing that experiment for years and never came to a conclusion, if my blinded eye is seeing black or nothing
@@UltraPazozo black is a complete absence of light. It is nothing. He sees black.
@luca murro not the same thing. Sleeping and fainting is a loss of consciousness. Most accurate thing would be eyes closed in a dark room. So no light through the eyelids.
@@UltraPazozo you are right! i never thought of that
@@Mr_Glenn no he doesnt see black, he doesnt see at all, their is absolutely no picture coming to his brain and to recognize the black color, the black must go to his brain but it doesnt.
"And then there's things that don't have colour like water but the ocean does" I'm mind blown can't imagine what he's thinking
Someone contact this to him please
This might help. You understand colors
Grab two markers from the same pack. That have no patterns just solid. ( no writing on it -initials- or indentations). Now make up a reason for them to be distinguished.
OK, I guess. :-) Thanks for your help.
+TommyEdisonXP no problem man
+TommyEdisonXP ask the doctors for something so you can see I want the best for you
+Bardia Gaming he didnt write it man. Its probably a family member
Have a look at the F and J keys on your keyboard, they have bumps on them. Put your index fingers on those and you're on home row, without having to look at the keyboard at all. Also software exists that will read certain things aloud to you
You are such a fantastic person. I wish I could explain to you or even "show" what colors are.
How me an intellectual person would describe a color
Red
Well
Its red
Definitly not as how i would have explained blue. Blue is, well, blue.
@@lukasandersen8137 and so it goes until the end
"describe orange"
"Red and yellow"
Its very red-ish
The joke is the fact that you misspelled intellectual 😂👏
Always come back to your videos tommy you’re the best !
"Way to be involved in poetry and song" haha, that cracked me up. Having a go at a word.
I'd say colour is like the different textures of objects or different pitches of sounds: just makes some objects look different from others in the same way pitch and texture make things sound and feel different
pitch is probably the closest analogy you can make since pitch is also just different wavelengths... but i don't think it comes even close to explaining what color is. specially because our perception of sound is objective and of color is entirely subjective.
mixing a 1000hz signal with a 2000hz signal won't make a 1500hz signal in our brain. mixing magenta and cyan (addictively) will give pink, which isn't even a real wavelength. pink doesn't exist, it's just how we interpret "white minus green".
a;so depending on your eyes you might see differnt colors, theirs differnt kinds of color blindness that prevent people from seeing some colors and instead see it as another, and then theirs some animals who can see more colors than humans can
for the people that dont understand what seeing nothing is like, try to see with the back of your head...
I can't do it!!!!!!!!😩
wtf?
HOLY FUCK
This. This fucked me up. It opened my awareness oh shit
WOW!
I so much love how he smiles and laughs at everything. My fist music producer’s also born blind. Honestly he’s one of my favourite producer till date and I enjoy spending time with him but since I relocated, I missed him so much. You reminded me of him. Thanks for all you do. Good bless you.
I love his videos. Just such an amazing and fun attitude.
White is a combination of colors and
Black is the absence of color
thats exactly what they said in the video...
It depends whether you are talking about light or pigment. White light is the presence of all visible clots of light and black is just the absence of light but it is voce versa for pigment or anything besides light that has color
ummm.... no... sorry but mixing purple, red, blue, and all those other dark colors.. well all colors are dark except yellow, does not make white lol impossible..... you're getting it confused with light. DARKNESS IS THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT. However, color is not light, it is only the refraction of light, NOT REFLECTION. therefore, white is the absence of colors. black is the combination. go mix some paint and see if it turns white in the end... only in your dreams...
@@bartploeger8702nope.
I know this is late, but let's try it. If you had (1) grain of flour. You take away the powder and leave the smallest increment, you would say that nothing is there. That is water. It is usually blue, but to such a small degree that we say it is transparent like glass (similar thing, but green). When you gather a cup of flour together on the counter, you can clearly feel it and notice it, the ocean is the same way in that the water is thick enough and there is enough that the color becomes the more obvious feature and not the transparency. I know this probably won't help, or is too late to help, sorry.
Also, colors are different, in the same way that you would call many different sounds under the category of "birds chirping." Many different colors are considered "blue." Ice and the sky are not typically the same color, but both are near enough that they fit under the category of "blue."
I am enjoying your videos. Thanks for the channel and being so open.
"way to go orange, way to be involved in poetry and song" 😂😂😂😂 this guy has such a unique sense of humor
This is my new favorite youtuber. SUBBED!!!
Thank you Tommy. This topic of color intrigued me so much I almost stopped at a green light. Your sense of humor is the best.
if he can't see color I wonder what his thoughts are about
KFishing his thoughts are just like ours, but the world we see, and colors are absent. It’s like asking what someone’s thoughts are in a 3D world from someone living in 4d world. We just haven’t been shown a 4d world so it can’t be in our mind.
If he were told to imagine something then I believe he would go to a memory if interacting with that object. The “image” would be more touch oriented than color or sight, if that makes sense.
@@Meep_Mop you could say there is no image, he cant imagine... IMAGES, any kind of.
he can only remember what his other senses sense.
@@stvdl9753 yup is really hard top imagine the non existance of any kind of image
@KFishing He's answered that in another video, about his dreams: no visuals, but sounds, smells, and touches.
I have to say I truly enjoy this channel. As a Deaf person who relies heavily on eyesight, this channel gives me some perspective on what it’s like not being sighted. Additionally, I can relate as far as the ridiculous questions people ask about my experience as a Deaf person. Keep up with the awesome content.
tommy: there’s nothing that rhymes with orange”
eminem: am i a joke to you?
braidan he’s not wrong orange doesn’t have a perfect rhyme.
Ali Mohamed yes it does. It’s “sporange” a sporange is a part of a fern... seriously look it up
@@AliMohamed-yq4wn Door hinge, losenge, porridge, sporange, and thats just at the top of my head. There are tons mate...
Celestial Dragon out of those, sporange is the only perfect rhyme
@@loosegoose4703 The others are still valid ryhmes.
Colors remind me the most of emotions, but that's tricky because of all the subtle shades
Emotions are all on sliding and moving scales, not a simple "I'm happy/sad/confused/etc" toggle. So colors having subtle shades actually fits your analogy pretty well (and yes, I used the correct "your").
Actually White is all the colours together and black is the absence of colour :)
Your opposite actually
Sally Graves hahaha you're stupid White is blue+red+green BLACK is ALL COLOR
Black is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color)
Explanation:
When there is no light, everything is black. Test this out by going into a photographic dark room. There are no photons of light. In other words, there are no photons of colors.
White is the blending of all colors and is a color.
Explanation:
Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this.
Fact: The sum of all the colors of light add up to white.
Sally Graves Sally stop embarrassing yourself please. You are wrong and I have already proven why. Go read my above posts. You are confusing the terms *light* and *color*. Light is additive in nature and color is subtractive.
Do you know why a black T-shirt gets hot in the sunlight whereas a white t-shirt stays cool? Because that particular dye is absorbing all the light frequencies. The color of an object can be defined as the light left over after a frequency gets absorbed. Leaves and grass appear green because they are absorbing magenta colored light. Hence the color green is actually an object which has absorbed magenta light. Black therefore is the sum total of all absorption in other words all color. Remember, each color is the antagonist of the light being absorbed. This is why its subtractive in nature. A white shirt on the other hand reflects all light, therefore has no color.
Did you not read my second post? I said colours of 'light'
This man literally put my experiences and questions into words. This is literally my perspective. LOL
are you also blind since birth? -- i feel like the most useful piece of information a sighted person could give about what vision is like is that a person's field of vision can be fit entirely onto a 2D flat surface (in fact, this is why things like photographs and computer screens can be flat, and why something like a jpeg file can have no depth whatsoever). equally important to understand though is that the points on this plane (which,, despite technically not being discrete, we can still basically think of as "pixels") that neighbor one another can be very close or even touching but will still manage to keep their own colors without anything blending into each other. (in this respect vision is very different from senses like hearing and smelling, where things just sorta merge and blur into one another. vision is inherently flat, and is inherently location-preserving. if i had to pick two qualities to describe it with, i think those are the two i'd say most capture the unique character of vision.)
(as a quick clarification, i should point out that i realize that many people will call vision 3-dimensional, and might point out things like how 3D movies differ from regular movies in order to back this claim up. it's really not anywhere close to true though. vision is *completely* 2-dimensional in its nature, but because we receive two slightly different images at once (since each eye is slightly differently located) the brain is able to quickly compare and contrast the two images it receives moment by moment and create a sense of depth. 3D movies emulate this by interlacing shots from two slightly different-angled cameras, and then having viewers wear special glasses so that each eye sees a different shot. again though, like all other images, real or filmed, these images are themselves flat and can be fit onto a 2D cartesian plane. a person with only one eye will not get the effects of a 3D movie, and in general is not said to have "stereoscopic vision", but they too can still generate a sense of depth as they walk around or whatever, since the visual information they receive changes from moment to moment based on their movement, and provides new information from sides or angles of things that maybe weren't visible even just a tenth of a second earlier.)
regarding colors,, the way in which a color like black differs from a color like red or turquoise or whatever isn't really the most interesting part about vision imo. effectively, those are just labels, which each point on this flat 2D field of vision can be marked with, allowing the brain to then group similarly colored neighboring "pixels" on this plane into shapes, thereby letting us make out different objects. the two most important thing to understand about colors, are 1. that the entire color spectrum can be arranged on a multi-dimensional continuum (in fact, something you might know is that colors like red and orange are kinda close to each other, which is why we can use terms like "reddish-orange", but that blue is very far away from them on the spectrum, which is why terms like "reddish-blue" or "bluish-orange" do not exist and would not be useful or make much sense), and 2. that any given point on this flat plane can only have *one* color, and in fact each point must have *at least* one color.
something else i should probably almost certainly mention is that colors are really the *only* thing that can be seen. some people might say otherwise, and that there are other elements of vision like shading or texture or whatever. but in reality these things are just illusions that arise from complex patterns of colors placed next to one another. (again, we can see this by looking at something like a jpeg file. jpegs are fully capable of showing sunsets or whatever other complex image, and yet all they are is a bunch of rows and columns of pixels, where each pixel has exactly one specific color. there is no "texture" value in any of the pixels in a jpeg.) --- so, colors are not simply some "frill" of vision or something like that then, but rather, for all intents and purposes, colors *are* vision. without vision, a person obviously cannot experience colors, but it's equally as true that if a person can't see any colors, then on no level does it make sense to try to claim that they have vision. (it's no more possible to imagine vision without colors than it is to imagine the english language without letters. if someone were to say "i know english has vowels, and it has consonants, but what else does it have besides that?", then you could maybe make the case that other things can /arise/ from how you put the letters next to each other, but ultimately if you remove all the vowels and consonants from english then there's not really anything left. and the same is true with vision. if you were to remove all the colors, then there'd be nothing left. -- and in fact, you need to be able to see at least *two* colors to have vision, so that those two colors can contrast and make shapes. if a person could see only one color, then it would not be enough to be useful in any way. it would be like writing green text on a green background, which is impossible to read since there's no way to tell anything apart in such a scenario.)
now,, there are also some things that are transparent, which realistically means that they have no color and therefore cannot be seen (and so, we see whatever's behind them instead). something like a dirty window could then be thought of as clear in some spots (the parts that are clean) but opaque in the other spots where it's dirty (which is why you can't see through those parts, because the dirt is opaque and in the way, and so that's what you end up seeing instead). because vision is inherently flat and 2-dimensional, it is not possible to simultaneously see a thing and see /through/ that thing. at every given point, it must be either one or the other., never both. (well,, i take that back. with something translucent, like a stained glass window, then you can partially see the window at a specific point /and/ partially see what's behind that point, because some light waves are getting through while others are being blocked, but that's a somewhat complex example to try to explain.) and i realize that this must sound extremely bizarre, that if a thing doesn't have color, then it can't be seen, and so instead the color of the thing /behind/ it is assigned to that point on the field of vision. but really, this is just a necessary consequence of the fact that the field of vision is 2-dimensional, and that every point must have one color and one color only.
i would imagine that people who have been blind since birth operate in extremely 3-dimensional models of reality that their brains have constructed for them, and how unbelievably bizarre it must be then to realize that a sense like vision comes in these flat sheets (which can be handy enough to be able to capture a whole bunch of objects all at once without muddling any of them together, but at the same time be so limited as to only provide information about the /front sides/ of all of those objects). we cannot see behind things, or see around corners (in the way that one can hear, or even smell, around corners), and so it's a pretty different animal from those other senses, and yet this is the primary source of sensory information for the majority of people, which has no doubt had tremendous effects on how so many of us conceive of our surroundings. my guess would be that many sighted people (whether they realize it or not) internalize their vision as a sort of screen in front of them, and when asked to think about what they think it's like to be blind, might guess that it's simply like having that same screen in front of you except now it's blank. but of course, if you've never had vision, then you never had any reason to feel like there's some sort of flat screen in front of you that's simply failing to show you your life in a series of flat sheets. what i am completely uncertain about though, is how easy it is for a blind-since-birth person to think 2-dimensionally in this way. but if you /can/ imagine a flat screen in front of your face, and can keep in mind that the most important thing to realize about how this screen works is that each point can display any value of a certain specific category (and this category is of course "colors", but you can think of it as numbers or letters or anything really, just keeping in mind that the purpose is to be able to then group these points by like value, as to parse the screen up into shapes) but that at any given time must display exactly one value, then i think you will have a fairly developed concept of what vision is like as an experience.
Oceans aren't actually blue, its just a reflection from the sky.
And as a matter of fact sky isn't blue either. It's a phenomenon called diffraction of the spectrum of light that make us see it like that.
maqueterobcn Yes... right! BUT... theoretically... if you see it blue is because it is blue! And from space if you see it black is because it is black... Color drives from perception, and perception depends on many factors that very rarely happen again in the exact same way. The blue you see is not always the same blue, so the difference from one blue to the other is the same from blue to black... they are different, always. It also means you are not seeing the same thing, or at least the same layers of the sky.
Things have color but not because they "have" it... they have colors because of the reflexion of light. ALWAYS. So the case of the sky actually is applicable to everything... and generally people don't see it that way because of the simple fact that we know that the sky is blue from earth and dark from space, but that is no exception... that is the rule for everything but just in a very extreme example.
Then why are indoor pools blue?
Water actually does have a slight blue tint.
ehhhhhhhhhh ..... Really?
Are you a troll or do I need to explain you it's the color of the floor, not the water?
If you had a wall, and you drew on that wall, if it didn't have any texture how would you see the drawing? Something has to be different. That's what color is.
but this guy cant see anything so
Melina's point is that it's a good way to explain what color is to a blind person even though they can't visualize it.
i love this explanation
I mean I see what you mean with this explanation, but this is more just explaining the concept of color, this much I'm sure he understands
I'm pretty sure that he knows "what" colour is, but doesn't know how each colour "looks", what the differences are. He cannot really get a grasp of it because he doesn't have the senses to do it. It's like asking a brick to sum. It's just not gonna happen. For one the brick doesn't have the capability to sum, and furthermore, it doesn't even know that you're talking to it anyway because it's not a living thing.
This is super fascinating!
Just imagine a new color
Like frink
Think of its color
Cant right?
I just though of pink
CallMePizzaking A brand new color that has never been made or seen before. You can't because there are no ideas you can base it off of.
@@breadboi9691 yeah I get it but I though of pink cuz it's very close to frink
When I was a kid I tried to very very hard.
There are a fuck ton of animals that can see more colors than humans. I guess we're all like him in that sense
I'd wish there was something that would make him see and they get his reaction and share it. It's so weird to think missing a sense could be this different. I'd be frustrated if I knew I was missing one sense..
Same!!
Same!!
we could be missing countless senses and dont even realize.
ez poison Yeah, I've been thinking about that lately but I just can't imagine another sense, sure there must be, but a sense is literally inexplicable as you can see. This guy doesn't get how the sea could have anything to do with the sky.
+TheEtherny There are lots of videos on da net of blind people getting eye donations. And of color-blind people putting on those Chroma glasses and see color for the first time. Oh, and ifcourse death people getting chochliar implants.
Colors are indeed hard. I am colorblind. When I need a suit, I need someone else to choose for me or else the colors will not match. Which for some reason seeing some combination of color next to each other gives people a headache just like some sounds could give you.
I don't know if it even makes sense to comment on a blind person's comment but, i can try to explain it.
It's like the two things dont match, like a puzzle that doesnt fit, it's just wrong. While it doesn't do anything to someone to see an "ugly" colour combination, it isn't pleasant, as in, you prefer something else to what is shown, or to what that person is wearing, it's like someone insults your favourite film, animal or anything really.
Gosh, tell me about it, I'm colorblind and I'm a girl. I'm 17 and I still have to get my mom to fact-check that my outfit matches, and trust that she isn't lying to me. Maybe I've spent my whole life mismatched and no one's had the heart to tell me
Jason Nosaj That's not completely false but also not actually true. You have cones in your eyes, which interpret the colors you perceive. But the number of cones you have are way less than the number of colors we perceive. So certain combinations of wave lengths trigger multiple cones. Let's say cone 1, 2 and 3 will make you see red. Missing cone 1 makes you see a completely different color like green.
Colorblind people are missing a number of cones, depending on how many you miss and which one you miss that makes it differ how severe of a colorblindness you have. There isn't really 3 types of colorblindness there are thousands but most of them can be generally be put in 3 categories. Blue, red and green. There is also the variant of missing all the cones making you unable to see color at all. You don't have cones at the side of your eyeballs, so you can test that by closing 1 eye and trying to see what color an object just on the edge of your field of vision.
I'm red green colorblind but this also makes it so that certain variants of blue is purple for me and vice versa. Matching clothes is a hell. That''s why you more than often need help with it from someone else or try to not wear colors at all. So black or white. There is also the problem of certain colors being invisible for me because I miss all the cones to perceive it. Like when I look at a bush of red roses, I can't see the roses. They are literally invisible. Some happens on websites with a big red warning. I can't see it. This really depends on the color surrounding it. My brain the fills it in with that color. If there is something like white surrounding it. It just looks grey to me.
there are special glassess for colorblind now, and it really worked
they say red and green are complimentary colors but to me that's the ugliest combination ever.
Ocean is blue the same reason as mirror is green.
You can see through small amounts of water, but you cant look through large ocean. It becomes blue in our eyes.
Same happens when you put mirror against a mirror. It becomes tinted green.
I thought the sky was reflected in the water or something like that
actually that's the reason I hear the most. its why lakes near trees look green.
Actually its more to do with wavelengths.. Sky could be red and ocean would still be blue
since when is a mirror green?
Skelz0r Since its creation.. You wont notice it with singe mirror tho
What a legend this man is, so funny and informative
Color is like musical notes, we associate higher pitches with happy things and lower pitches with sad things, we associate bright colors with happy things and dark colors with sad things, of course this isnt true on every level but it's the closest thing I can think of.
This should have been upvoted.
Everything is in the association, the only thing that he can do to explain something that he never has been able to see such as colors is association. He doesn't necessary associates black or white as something happy or sad, he just associate it with the closest concept he has, like the red with the stoplight.
High notes can be sad and low notes can be happy???
I'd say the best way to describe colour would be to compare it to sound. Both are a continuous spectrum of waves with different frequencies, so a colour could be compared with a particular pitch on the spectrum of sound frequencies. All pitches are sound, but isolated, have an immediately noticeable quality distinct from other pitches adjacent to them on the spectrum. Colour is still light, but when a particular colour is isolated, it has a quality to it that makes it distinct from other pitches/colours on the spectrum of light (which looks exactly like a rainbow, or takeshi 69's head)
he switched black and white
black is probably the easiest to explain, but not perfect, as just try to see out the back of your head, you can't even see the color black... just nothingness. but black is the closest to nothingness which is probably how he "sees".
If you keep adding colors to your paint, you'll get black. That's called subtractive synthesis.
If you keep adding colors to a spotlight, you'll get white. That's called additive synthesis.
i would say black and white dont really have much to do with color, they are both the absence of color, they have more to do with light and dark, forexample if you mix a bunch of paint to gether you might get black but thats less becuase of the colors mixing and more becuase it just keeps getting darker and darker untill the color no longer remains
@@brandonwithnell612 In the subtractive synthesis you will get brown if you mix any colors. So Black is in both synthesises the absence of any color.
Wow, the conversations on this channel are so mind-blowing. I wish Tommy would start making videos again! His entire channel has made me think about and attempt to interpret so many concepts that myself and other sighted people have never had to think about. It is interesting because Tommy talks about how he basically cannot comprehend the concept of sight but his way of "seeing" is not ever fully understood by a sighted person, either. Sighted people can try to imagine what being blind would be like, but there is no way for them to really know HOW to imagine it. Our interpretations of blindness are all based off of perception essentially based off of things we have already seen. Its pretty amazing to think about his concept of beauty, too. He truly sees people for who they are and I think that is why he is so pure and kind. I view things way differently after watching his videos and I love how much I actually enjoy learning and thinking while watching them. He has a charming way of making you smile and truly appreciate life. Awesome, inspiring man.
Hi Tommy! I think the best way to describe the concept of color to you is to compare it to sound pitch. Light is like a kind of sound that you can feel with very high precision, so you can feel the location points where every sound is going from at the same time. Any object produces sound by every small piece, and this allows you to feel the shape, like you touch every piece at the same time. So eyes are kind of ears that also used as hands to feel the shape of objects. Two eyes gives you ability to feel the object from slightly different sides at the same time like you use two hands. Red is a very low pitch, green is a middle pitch, blue is a very high pitch, black is silence, and white is loud noise. That's all. What do you think about this, is this simple enough? Of course you still can't feel colors, but you can imagine this like another kind of sound that you distinguish from normal sound. I think this explanation is very close to the light and color nature.
The thing you said about Black & White is the Exact opposite
Black is the absence of color & White is every color in one.
I know you’re blind & you won’t see this, but i just thought i would put it out there
Familien Jakobsen not exactly. For pigments white is the absence of color and black is all colors combined. You’re talking about light :)
@@shotshaper3638 Oh yea...
That actually makes sence.
Sorry bout that
+Jake MacTosh ok but, what COLOR really is is the light itself. not the pigment.
when you mix all the paints together they stop reflecting any light and that is by they are black.
Focus what is wrong with you? What are you talking about? When has anybody in these comments done anything ignorant about his blindness?
All of you are right. Using additive colors (light), white is all colors combined. Using subtractive colors (pigment), black is all colors combined.
who told this guy ice was blue?
Puffa Fish the xnxx
Puffa Fish Probably a kindergartner.
Puffa Fish Large chunks of old, compact ice without air bubbles is blue; *_very_* blue. It is blue for the same reason large bodies of water are blue, water molecules absorb red light.
Ice and the sky are not blue.
The sky is blue. The clouds aren't blue, but the sky is.
I think the best way to describe it is the same as low-pitch sound (BASE) against high pitch sound (BEEP).
The Red color is in the longest wavelength before it becomes Infra-Red (Invisible to humans), Violet is in the shortest wavelength before it becomes Ultra Violet (Invisible to Humans). All the other colors are in between.
Sound also has a long wavelength 20Hz (Anything lower we can't hear) and then high pitch sound which as short wavelength (20 Khz). So the difference in color can be the same as the difference in sound wavelengths as well.
The combination of all the colors can let make nice paintings.
The same way as different wavelength of sound can make nice music.
I'm sure he's heard of the wavelength explanation, but that doesn't actually help you grasp the concept of color.
Exactly how this blind guy AKA me sees it. Only I know that the visible light spectrum runs from 380 or 400 nanometers to about 800 nm which is almost an octave or a bit more depending on what source you read. I have a friend who claimed he could see the light from his tv remote at 940 nanometers a little bit if he put the censor right up to his eye, but that was in the 80s, he cince lost all his vision due to an accident, and he liked to BS a lot so I can't be sure if he could really see it. So take the notes from middle C to the next C up and you have an audible equivalent of the visible light spectrum. But the human eye can distinguish millions of colors within that range. Those colors are based on frequency, amplitude and purity as I understand it, so not sure how many colors that would be if you only considered the frequencies and not the other variables. We can only distinguish maybe a few hundred steps within a single audible octave of sound, and human culture only uses 24 of those for music at the most (Arabic music uses 24 tones). Multiply that number by the amplitude steps we can distinguish at each pitch, and the range of pure notes VS. white noise and maybe you get millions? So you think of colors like pink which I imagine to be a strong middle c surrounded by white noise at all other frequencies within the octave, AKA pink noise. The brighter the pink, the stronger the overall sound you hear. The louder middle c is in comparison with the rest of the pitches, the redder it is. As I understand it, pink is reddish white. Pink is the color of health, so it gets a wellknown color name unlike bluish white and yellowish white I suppose. Black would be a thin white noise sound, followed by the shades of grey as louder white noise until you get to white, the loudest white noise. I imagine dark blue as that quiet white noise accented with the A above middle c poking out a little from the noise. What confuses me though is why dark blue and dark purple are often confused with black, but dark red is not. But I know the eye doesn't see the same way as the ear hears. The eye has only 3 flavors of color detectors called cones, which register red, green and blue and must work together to get the other colors, and rods that can't distinguish colors but see in black and white and shades of grey. Physics tells me that one octave of spectrum whether acoustic or electromagnetic is much like another, but the way the brain processes each one means that that octave of light can be so much more interesting than just one octave of sound would be. If you played color swatches in an octave of sound as I described above it would probably be pretty boring, but scientifically interesting to a blind guy who took a few courses in school and knows a bit of physics like me. There are programs like Audio Paint, but it uses pitch to show up and down, not color if I remember right. A color detecting program that played the colors as I described above might be somewhat useful. But on a multicolored surface you'd have to be able to pinpoint a small area at a time or the App would get confused, as phone apps that speak the color already do now.
That still doesn’t explain it
Actually that explains nothing because you are missing some key facts about color.
Color is not light and doesnt exist outside of our brains. There is no color in physics. Color is just a biological thing. Color is just the thing you experience when you see light. To elaborate further, one of the first things that you will know if you searched about how we see color is that there are 3 types of cones in our eyes (often erroneously named the red and green and blue cones) These cones send 3 signals to the brain for it to process.(I know that this is overly simplistic and has many things left out but this is enough for my point). So color is the values of three signals while light is characterized by its wavelength. This is why color is not in physics as the perception of color has nothing to do with light, its just a perception.
When you say how colors can be used to make nice paintings, you didnt say why it will make the paintings look nice. People with amusia have ears that work perfectly well yet they still dont derive enjoyment from music. its much more complex than that.
Shawn Klein I recommend that you learn about the chromaticity diagram seeing that you are blind and so interested in understanding what color is due to me seeing your wall of text. I want to say knowing that you might know this that that while it might be true that the eye can see millions of colors, the eye only sees that much in the sense that it could send that many combinations of signals. We are actually consciously aware of far less. I will leave it you if you want to know to search how many colors we are aware of.
The way he thinks about colors is like how we think what is in his head. It’s hard to imagine.
Did anyone else come here after watching the new UA-camrs react?
Yah
+Sollux Captor OH MA LIfe Yes I did!!
+Foxy Grandpa I've searched for UA-cam videos for blinds, which I can hear while playing games, thats how i got here xD
The ocean isn't totally clear, as it contains salt it causes clouding, however the colour blue comes from the reflection of the sky, hence on a cloudy day the sea looks grey and dull.
Water is actually a really faint shade of blue.
"color is hard"
I'd never thought about it that way, but you're absolutely right. lol
This video is very humbling, I never really thought about how truly blessed I am to be able to see
Color is to vision as pitch is to sound. That’s the best way I can describe it.
I think of it more like timbre, like how a guitar sounds different than a flute.
First of all, you are awesome! I would be miserable if I ever lost my sight but you really show that you can live to the fullest without that sense.
But the reason I am commenting (which I usually never do), is to answer to some questions you seemed to have. I think that all the people trying to explain colour to you, have made it even more complex of a concept. As you said it yourself - its just another thing experienced by a sense like sound. And as with sound, you can mix it all together.
Red isn't fire. It's like saying animal is cat. It could be... But it is so much more. Fire is red. But it could be orange and yellow and even white or blue... And almost every other colour. But red is what the fire is the most, i guess... Or what we remember the best, because we are taught to.
Cold is not blue. Cold does not have a colour. We say that blue is a cold colour, because that is again what we are taught to. I guess if a child is taught from the beginning that blue is the warmest colour ever, he/she would grow up thinking just that. And things tend to turn blue in cold, like lips and all..
Clear water is colourless, not blue. But the surface of water reflects light and colour like a mirror. So the ocean is blue because it reflects the colour of the sky. But rivers can be brown and green and everything, because of the chemicals or things in it.
Perfect ice is transparent like clear water. But if you scratch it, it flakes like snow, you can feel it with your touch. And those flakes have different properties, like structure and colour - those are white-ish. Like snow. I dont think that ice is blue. That's just another association with that cold thing. Well, unless it reflects the sky again.
There might be a colour but it has different shades and hues. And orange is orange indeed, but I have read, that the colour was named after the fruit, not the other way around, which is curious. And eminem disagrees - there is a video available in youtube of him rhyming orange :D
Black and white are so opposite, that they are almost the same. When you mix all the colours, by using paint, you get black.. You can never get white by that, because it needs to have no colour. BUT when you mix light as in the wavelenghts, white is the combination of all the colours and black is the absence of light.
So writing all that i think i might have made it all even more complex, but thats just some thoughts i had about your short video. :)
I mean, what people often don't realise is how much our sense of colour is affected by what we are told. So when I started taking art classes, one of the first things i was told was to stop thinking what the colour of this or that is, and start looking at it. Most of people say that tree trunk is brown. Well, it kind of never is the shade they would paint it. When observing closer, it might be more greenish or blackish, but everybody says: Brown!
And then there are people with synesthesia :D
he never saw in the first place..why would he be miserable
I think it's really nice you tried to explain it to him. Actually BLUE is warmer than RED. Blue has more energy. But put some metal in the fire and it will glow red, that's because the heat is breaking the limits of infrared and becoming visible as red light. So while infrared is warm, ultraviolet is way more powerful.
I think the best way to explain color is to compare it to sound, like high frequency color is purple, and low is red, and compare it to High frequency sounds, and low frequency sounds
This is so neat! Keep up the good work!
It's just like a bee - if it could talk - trying to explain to us what ultraviolet looks like.
That's a "colour" that we just cannot fathom but bees can actually see it.
+Akira Uema not really anything like it...we can perceive color. When we close our eyes...we see black...he doesnt even have that. It's a useless thing called eyes and he doesnt know what seeing is. A bee would have something to go on...possibly something to relate it to. Blind is blind. No concept of what a color even is.
+Snakedoctor O'Reilly I understand what you've said. Indeed, we grasp the concept of colour whereas he doesn't. Perhaps I cannot imagine what is to not see.
Akira Uema Thats just it...no one can unless they've been there. Even people that havent always been blind cant really fathom it...because their brains have experienced it, and now they have memories of what it's like. Someone who was blind from birth doesnt even understand what sight it.
+Snakedoctor O'Reilly He sees black, that's all he sees
Pepe Is Love, Pepe Is Life Look at what you just said...he "SEES" black...that's all he "SEES". No...it's not. He "sees" nothing. He has no sensation of what black even is. His optic nerve and occipital lobe don't work at all. Meaning it's not like a dark room. It's nothing. No black, no dark. Just nothingness.
Ice is not blue. You're friends are messing with you.
It’s represented as blue in cartoons though cus it’s frozen water and generally bodies of water are blue.
Idk if he will ever read your comment.
@@Forsaken_Dan He probably has the compter read the comments outloud.
White with some light blue shades.
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I don't know if someone pointed that before on the comments here.
But is the opposite, black is the absence of color and white is all the colors together. Not that it would help you with anything useful, but just saying.
that depends if u r talking about 2d or 3d. 3d is the absence of light (like in a dark room), white is light. on 2d if u mix all the colors together, you get rich black. the absence of color on a 2d surface is white. both of u are right, it just depends on what dimension u r referring to
@@gabbyg213 That confusing to grasp even for who is sighted.
@@RodrigoBadin It's confusing to grasp because it's complete nonsense.
@@RodrigoBadin Yeah i too noticed that mistake, but he is easily forgiven since he can't see colors.
@@gabbyg213
No, that is not how it works.
Light even existing in a 2D surface is debatable, however if one could perceive light as a 2D thing it would still have colors and absence would be black.
I love this guys sense of humor and countenance 🙂
I DSP for a blind man. (Direct Support Professional)He was totally awesome & would tell me all the time "how good the sun looked today"
Hi Tommy, we humans are lazy! The blue of ice is very different than the blue of the sky, we call both blue because we don't want to memorize more terms, and because they are similar enough to fit the term blue. Oh, and because we don't want to argue about it enough to be specific. Like Eskimos have a hundred words for snow because of its differences, we should have many words for blue, but we don't, because we are lazy, and because we want to focus on really important matters; like famous people whom lack talent.
Don't be so negative. People were using the word 'blue' for all shades of blue long before the whole celebrity culture came about. Anyway, we do have separate terms for all of this, we have different types of blue; sky blue, baby blue, navy blue etc.
Yes, of course you are right! We do have a myriad of terms for the precision minded to denote the subtle distinctions of color.
Also, I did not intend to infer that talentless reality show celebrities single handedly degraded our descriptive color terminology, along with their other rich social contributions. Indeed, it was long before mediocrity became the recipe for notoriety that the majesty of the visual spectrum became "a bunch of colors".
Mostly, I just jumped on an opportunity to deliver some cheap social commentary, sorry. At the time I guess I was feeling a little blue!!
"We humans" are you implying he isn't human or something? lmao
I can see how you interpret my statement that way, but no, Tommy is included in we humans. If he could see he would probably also be lazy about color specificity.
Trying to explain colors to a blind person is like trying to explain the 4th dimension to us.
Thank you for this video Mr.
I'm paralyzed but damn I can not imagine being blind or deaf, it must be a whole different world
Isn't it the opposite black has no colours and white is all of them together
Pondga Dobcool he was taking paint. But what you're saying is still correct but in the subject of talking light waves. Paint is the opposite. Annoying right?
***** thanks for the info
Donato Felicella thanks for info
depending on what kind of colors you're talking about. if you're talking about light, white is all the colors mixed into 1 and black is the utter absence of color.
with paint colors. black is created by putting all the colors together. but even when u do that u still dont get a straight black. u can get close to it tho. i believe white is actually the same both ways. because in order to get white you need all the colors.
The fuck are you saying?
If I had blind children, I would explain colors to them by using fruit. I would give them a lemon and let them touch it and smell it and taste it and I would say 'That is yellow'. And I would do the same with all the fruits I could - oranges for orange, cherries for red, apples for green... That way they could enjoy colors as sighted people do.
Fire = cherries, yum...
Such a fascinating concept!
Sadly he will never see my comment :(
Hmmmm 🤔
But he can hear it when someoneelse read it for him
80 iq 🙁
@@orkan5440 you have 80 iq?
@@cqcumberz1006 yup becouse I'm dumb...
@@orkan5440 how old r u
@@cqcumberz1006 15 why?
Plot twist: he didn't opened his eyes
Wtf is that english *didnt open* not *didnt opened*
Superrubik 11 Is _that_ English it’s didn’t with a ‘
@@selo383 it's not his first language for god's sake
@@IbrahimIceCold It isnt my first language too. Im Spanish 🇪🇸
Wheb you add did or didnt to the word you dont say the past
This man: nothing rhymes with orange
The BFG: hold my quogwinkle...
The bfg? Big fucking drill? Big fucking gun?
@@girf4233 bio force gun
Girf big friendly giant
@@freddyfaz7869 thats bio force gun
Sporange
This time youtube recommended something that is good to watch.
“How does water have no color but the ocean has color” he makes a good point
Scattering
The ocean is blue because the water reflects the sky, which is blue. But when you have a small amount and you are close to it, it doesn’t seem to reflect much and is mostly transparent.
VIBaJ 16 this is somewhat true, but the color isn’t only from that, it’s also from things like algae, rust (copper rust), etc that color it blue.
@@vibaj16 The water is in fact not colorless; even pure water is not colorless, but has a slight blue tint to it, best seen when looking through a long column of water. ... Rather, water blueness comes from the water molecules absorbing the red end of the spectrum of visible light.
nah
He should take psilocybin mushrooms or a heavy DMT trip, he may be able to understand color.
Super Taco nope
Super Taco Not sure, But it's worth a try!
Yeah he could probably feel it.
hahahhahaha
laughed so much
ah... someone read this comment for this cool guy please.
I read your comment and it's fantastic. Thank you so much.
+King Pickle He probably had some assistance for reading messages on UA-cam.