@@gbormann71 Agreed. I feel like Vsauce does more of the psychological and philosophical stuff and Veritasium does more of the science and math, but they both do a little bit of everything and are great for education.
@@Puzzlesocks Psychology and philosophy is science as well. Derek is more of a journalist than a science educator. As in he does reports on stuff found out in the world rather than exclusively interpolate educational resources. Especially last few years where he is mostly just a sponsor for various companies.
@@WhatIsSanity Philosophy is definitely not science. It's equally a bit of a stretch to call psychology a real science. It doesn't mean they aren't useful or interesting, but it's completely dishonest to refer to either of them as "science" on the same level as physics or neurobiology. If your definition of science includes philosophy, then your definition is far too broad and completely useless for properly communicating with others.
@@Puzzlesocks Science is data gathered using the scientific method, genius. Why don't you look up the meaning of the word before and going calling people redundant. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't it's not science. I've read many studies in philosophy and psychology and have been learning about both for over ten years. I know several people with degrees and PhDs that would back me up on this. I dare you to walk into a room full of Doctors and tell them they know nothing of science.
I asked my teacher this exact question in the 4th grade and I got in trouble because she believed that I was intentionally trying to disrupt class by asking ridiculous questions.
Messages For The Future & How The Earth Moves are particularly great ones by him. He's been making great content for over ten years and has only gotten better. He's definitely one of the more thought provoking science communicators of our generation. He never comes off as condescending either. He asks a thought provoking question, goes down a rabbit hole and lets us know what he found. His enthusiasm is icing on the cake.
I think Vsauce is now one of those legendary channels. I’ve never seen someone do a reaction video for it, however. I think you’ve stumbled into an incredible opportunity here.
I followed vsauce channel for years, it's a great food for thought chanel, and Michael has a good way to present the subjects that borderlines between humor and fright. Nice reaction.
My grandfather was colourblind. One day he had to replace the paisley carpet on his stairs as it was worn out. When my father came home from school he burst into fits of laughter as the new carpet, despite having the correct paisley pattern was green whilst the carpet on the landing was red. It was the first time my grandfather knew he was colour blind and apparently my dad couldn't sit down for a week lol😂
My grandfather got his PhD in chemistry and only found out he was colorblind when he failed a colorblindness test as part of one of his job applications. I think he lost that job thanks to the test, but he ended up doing all right for himself in the end.
I can definitely recommend all 3 seasons of Vsauce's Mind Field, for personal viewing even. They are his regular videos with a higher budget basically. Very good content. Glad you're covering him, I'm sure you will love his other videos too. My personal top 3 is how people disappear, spooky coincidences and the zipf's mystery. All of them very curious, thought-provoking and contain lots of information for further study.
more vsauce PLEASE!! Michael has been doing this stuff for decades at this point, and he has it down to a science literally. You strike me as incredibly inquisitive and i loved seeing your facial reactions as you started to ask your own questions. I experience that everytime i watch a Vsaucr video!
I had the exact same thought. Watching NP's expressions as she either hears a new concept or is processing it is delightful. It's the reason that this is such a great channel. Her thirst for knowledge is contagious. I am so glad that I found her channel.
As a colorblind person I have been able to come to many of the conclusions shared in this video strictly through my own experiences of constantly trying to explain to people what I see and how color blindness works. Color seeing people struggle to understand why you can’t just learn that the color of grass is green. They can’t comprehend how it can actually look orange to a color blind person. It’s a fascinating subject.
i think for the future i recommend to you just showing them a colorblindness graph on google images, it shows how you see very well and you dont even know it (because you see 2 same images lmao), its like removing a crayon color entirely and putting a shade of the one next to it in its place say you just have less colors of crayons to draw your world;D
I have synaesthesia which means I see sounds as colour. Only realised It was unusual 10 years ago when I asked my daughter can you see the colour of that note while teaching her guitar.
Oh the many times I've tried to explain my colorblindness to friends. I frequently got odd looks for wearing mismatched colors that to my eye looked the same from my ex wife and friends 😆.
I live in a family of color blind people since the rarity of my maternal grandmother and grandfather where both colorblind. We all just know never to buy paint or clothing without a non family member.
@@NoProtocol I tried to explain numerous times to friends and family, and they always had this confused look on their face as a result. I've always been amazed seeing the videos of colorblind people wearing glasses to correct their colorblndness and their emotional reactions to seeing the world as it really is.
Like you, I thought about this often throughout my life and, also like you, have had an extremely difficult time trying to articulate the concept and get them to understand what I was thinking about.
There is actually a way to determine if my red is your green: illuminate a strawberry with red light then with green light. It should appear red first and black in the second case.
You gotta watch more Vsauce. One of my favorite channels of all time and Michael really gets you thinking about some interesting topics you may never have found. Also you said that you were interested in language, you should watch the "Misnomer" video by Vsauce. He goes a lot into language and word origins in that one. Hope you keep coming back to him!
Absolutely you need to watch more vsauce, this was the first video I watched of his and I've not missed an upload since. He's one of the most thought provoking channels on UA-cam, he has a way of explaining things that makes it easy to understand and yet you are left wanting more and asking more questions. I definitely look forward to you reacting to more vsauce if you decide to.
You are super contemplative in the simplest way. From your facial expressions and how you ask the listener’s questions to make the brain want to be better to match your query makes me smile super widely
red-green colourblind male here, annoyingly as a kid my mother told me I was totally colour blind so would not be able to do things I was interested in.. I'm a software developer now, the colours change while you type and I fucking love it :D
@@shinrapresident7010 yes but they seem a bit too expensive to take the plunge.. generally it's only a minor issue in artificial circumstances, at work I can use 'color blind' filters on screens etc :)
Yay! I am colour blind in London. I am 68 and in 1973 just the odd 49 years ago, was the only time anyone noticed this when an old Accounts tape was replaced by a new one, where I could clearly see the distinction between Black(Debits) and Red (Credits).On the old faded tape, they looked the same. It is around 8% of Men and within that, it is 98% RED-BROWN-GREEN. In my local park, I thought the trees were all these colours but they are all shades of Green, apparently. For Women it is something like 0.00001% lol
Heya 😃 I just want to say thank you. You're reactions are always so interesting, because of the mix of fun & curiosity topics and thoughtful comments on them. It's pretty rare to find "intellectual" reaction content, sooo thanks 😁 And because you asked: "The Zipf Mystery" from Vsauce was my first one I saw of him and it gave me the creeps. (still does) I highly recommend it for your list ^^ He also has a cool TED-Talk about "why do we ask questions?" which is also amazing IIRC. 🙂 Anyway, byee~
I had a servere squint from birth, so I never developed any stereoscopic depth perception. I developed my sight to be one eye only…. I mean, I can choose what eye I wish to use consciously. It does have an impact on my ability to most sports, but I played some hockey years ago. The coach one day decided to let us all use an eyepatch to cover one eye. I was as good (read: BAD) as always, but all others where more or less helpless in comparison to me. They told me to switch to the other eye, it didn’t change anything. It was my normal, not theirs.
My mother had an eye damaged when she was a child. That eye sees colors a different shade than the other. E.G. When one sees red, the other sees orange. She can watch 3D movies without needing glasses (though the 3D is more pronounced with them)
@@vexvesper Somewhat. The eye is just a sensor. All it does is receive photons and nerves fire depending on frequency, wavelength, amplitude etc. It's the brain that takes that data and turns it into an image. The eye is a camera. The optic nerve is an HDMI cable. Your brain is a graphics card. Your memory is photoshop.
I used to ask my parents this same question when I was a kid. Cuz there’s literally no way to know for sure. We could all be seeing, hearing, saying, tasting, smelling, and feeling very different things from what the next person thinks we are.
From the subject of taste, I think that is very clear. There are foods that just taste nasty to some people and taste delicious to others. In this case it's because everyone has different taste receptors. Some people can chemicals that other people can't. Such as Glucosinolate in broccoli. For some people, this tastes bitter.other people can't taste it at all. This chemical is also in many major brands of beers, such as Budweiser.
@@Weaseldog2001 Yes, but we can't know if this is because both people are experiencing the same taste and just have different preferences, or if they're experiencing completely different tastes. Someone could taste exactly what I taste when I eat chocolate, but their brain might react to that like I react when I taste coconut.
Vsauce is a great channel. I think I first stumbled upon it around 2014 or so and pretty much binged the entire catalog of uploads over the course of several weeks and have kept up with each upload since. I miss the older style of shorter videos that were uploaded more often over the current longer format that only gets uploaded 2-3 times per year, but I also understand that Michael is much busier working on other projects now. You can't go wrong with reacting to any of the post-video game era Vsauce content.
@@vibaj16 I’m subscribed, so I see them in my feed. They’re nice, but you can’t compare them to the 8-10 minute videos he used to put out regularly back in the day.
I remember explaining this concept/question about colors to my friends when I was around 12 years old, and they all called me stupid for it. Colors are just a way for our brains to interpret and experience the different wavelengths of the color spectrum that our eyes can perceive, so who says all of our eyes do the thing when interpreting them? It’s all so fascinating!
This is actually more a proof that we do the same. When we evolve we evolve the same (in generic sense) that means we all should response similar to those frequencies.
@Parth Savyasachi: True, we evolve the same, generally, but we all have specific differences - especially when it comes to the senses. We all have preferences in tastes, smells, sounds, sights, etc., etc. This might be one of the ways that everyone's different from each other.
@@mikek0135 preference is quite different thing. For example i prefer hot and my wife prefers cold. Still 10 deg temperature is 10 deg temperature. Here there are more reasons to believe that we all (including animals) see the colors the same. The clues are in nature. For a short example green color contrast to red. We all know this. Now red flowers contrast to green leafs. Its important for flowers to stand out so that it could be carried by birds and spread seeds etc. That only means that to the birds too green and red contrast. (It means its very likely we all perceive color the same)
@@parthsavyasachi9348 thats not why we all see color the same, as you probably know because you sound smart, is color is from every other color frequency besides one bouncing off. its photons, and the shape of its frequent is lets say green for now. the cones and rods in every human is shaped, well as cones and rods. this wavelength hits these two objects and we get the same message anyone else, besides color blind people, do. its because the photon and our eyes are certain shapes, that makes it certain that the same shape and size equipment will ensure similar results. color blind people are also why we know people who arent color blind see the same colors. because we already know how to precieve color differently, we can observe and research color blindness, and detect the causes directly. if every person has this variants than color is perceived differently. but if only color blind people have this variant its safe to say everyone else sees green the same.
Your explanation of what you see as red makes perfect sense. Your eyelids are thin and light can get through them, but not without also traveling through their blood vessels. You're literally seeing that color through rose-tinted "glasses".
For years, I've considered Vsauce's "How People Disappear" the single greatest video on UA-cam and would definitely watch a reaction to it and more Vsauce in general!
From Vsauce, my selection of videos would be: -Why Are Things Creepy? -Is Earth actually Flat? -How Earth Moves -Which Way is Down? -Illusions of Time -Did People Used to look older?
Also, when I was younger the sense that people didn't or couldn't understand what I was feeling or trying to say was so frustrating - that I couldn't just take those things and like, transplant them into another person. That (in part) drove me to writing and music, trying to express myself in specific and unique ways; to try to create something external that represented my feelings as accurately as possible. But what you're thinking and feeling change as you engage with yourself, new information is added during externalization, some information will always be left out and even if that weren't the case, no one will interpret it the same way I do because they have different experiences, different ideas, emotions, personalities - different biology. That's something that can feel quite defeating; what, then, is the point of any of this? But there is still meaning in sharing something - anything - with other people, because whatever you share will go through a process of evolution, changing form and meaning as others interpret it, being refined until there is either common acceptance of the thing's essence, or a recognition that such commonality can't be reached so it's back to the drawing board to try approaching from another angle or move on to something else. And in that way, we develop shared realities which are, to me, a collaborative work of art.
Watching your face as you absorb new information and marvel in unknown facts is priceless, your smile at acknowledged humor and understanding of deeper meanings is more interesting than the actual videos you review. UA-cam is a much better place with your videos, thanks.
Funny how you said you thought about it as a child. I had this thought when I was about 12 and my brother (10 years older) was really intrigued and said, he never thought about it. I have since communicated this to many people and most of them, not only never seem to think about such things, many even failed to understand the concept.
I've always thought questions like these are so interesting. So much of what we experience visually is based solely on our brain's interpretation (and often hallucination) that we'll likely never have a true answer unless we find a way linguistically. Vsauce and another channel called Sci-Show are the OG educational YT channels to whom everyone should be subbed in my opinion.
This is also a question that I often tried to articulate to others with not much success, thinking that it might have an answer but never having found one. This video and your comments were enlightening in realizing, that at least in our encased and limited 4 dimensional reality, there is no answer. Each one of us is the center of our universe and it's very existence is determined by our perception of it. Each of us is unique, and irreplaceable and that is the insurmountable obstacle that makes us human and foils all those who strive to find an algorithm for a one size fits all utopia. We can all experience the same things, but the perception is very personal. Your channel is a refreshing presence on an incredible platform for the distribution of thoughts and ideas as well as the promotion of curiosity, that as we know, is the genesis of knowledge. Thank you.
You can tell what color people see by the effects of that color on them. For example, if my red was blue, i would describe red as calming, but no people always say red is passoinate or fiery. If my red was your green, i would describe red as healthy.
But do you see red as fiery and passionate because the colour provokes that in you. Or is it because we were taught that. Our blood is red, when people are angry, or excited, or aroused their skin gets redder. We associate red more with fire than blue because its more common in fire. Sometimes its even said when you get angry you see red. Blue on the other hand we associate with clear skies and soothing water. Of course it makes is feel calm. What I'm saying is, if a blind man saw for the first time and we showed him colours without the context we grew up with, would colours inspire the same reaction in him.
I have 15/20 vision (better than 20/20) and am not color blind, but whenever I play video games, I always turn on the protanopia color blind setting, because it’s easier on the eyes.
4:44 As a nurse assessing pain can be difficult we often rely on a patient’s reporting. If the patient is unable to communicate the pain we have different assessments tools that try to approximate their pain.
Thanks for another great selection, and response. In regards to talking about pain (this is a tangent to what you both were talking about), as someone who experienced a fair deal of pain in a serious car accident, our brains (understandably) can't remember pain, the way we remember happiness (you remember a moment and you re-experience that feeling). We can remember that it was painful, but can't recall how it felt. We can do that with other emotions/feelings, but not pain. As I said, there's a reason for it, the brain doesn't want to relive it. Along the lines of what you and he said, pain is a lonely thing.
if you're looking for more vsauce to watch i highly recommend the prime time classics from 7-9 years old, they are similar to this one, short, fun and twisted, hope to see more of him here, it suits you
Vsauce is awesome, I've watched everyone of his videos. He's slowed down the last few years but every episode is good. Oh and he always finds a new way to enter the frame when they do a "take" which is a funny quirk I always appreciated.
that is why is so complicated to describe the taste of food in words, we can describe some carateristics that we presume the audience was prior experience and this gave em the same feeling to us
every Vsauce video is worth watching. Micheal is just so amazing at cracking open subjects in very thought provoking ways. I get the feeling you would enjoy most of his videos if not all of them.
Ask a University student exactly how to put an elephant into a refrigerator?. They will say Open the door, put the elephant in, close the door. Now ask them exactly how do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? They will repeat, Open the door put the giraffe in and close the door. Ask a 5 year old the exact same question and on the second answer they add: Take the elephant out, THEN put the giraffe in. I believe this is because children are more perceptual of their immediate existence and its effects last longer than an adults. Thoughts?
I experienced this once when I was calibrating a color printer. Three different people were looking at the same colors and it quickly became apparent to me that all 3 of them were seeing the same colors differently. I was amazed by this and had to research it further. Also neither of the people were color blind according to them. Amazing!
I'm colour blind ,I can't tell the difference between red and amber in traffic lights,i mix up other colours as well ,both my brother's are as well, it's genetic ,the reason men are more likely to be colour blind is because colour blindness is the result of a defect in their X chromosome, men have one X chromosome ,whereas women have two X chromosomes ,if one of a woman's X chromosomes is defective the other one takes over .❤️
i can remember back in the 90s when the Discovery channel had this documentary on childhood development which included the sally-anne experiment. they had a bunch of children of varying ages do physical, mental and emotional tests. it was quite fascinating to see at what age certain things in our brain clicked like a sense of self, a sense of others, spatial awareness, etc.
Sympathy, compassion and empathy are also subjects people intensely differ in. Thats why the Sally Anne test is so interesting. Same with sensitivity of the skin and the senses. I've always thought about this and how people are so different concerning these subjects because their experiences are so different.
Sorry Albert but when Billy Furze punched me ad I went down in one hit,in St Peters Park,Walworth,South East London,England in 1963 that was definitely NOT perception even though it was 59 years ago:)
I've seen videos of someone who was born deaf hearing for the first time (they seem very amazed and happy), but I've never seen a video of someone who was born blind seeing for the first time. We may not have the technology to make that happen yet, but it would be cool to witness their reaction to seeing all the different colors and finding out if they were anything like what they had imagined they would be.
maybe one day we could stream a video directly to a blind persons brain and make them see it, maybe, hope their brain doesnt melt from that crazy event though
This reminds me of a discussion I had yesterday on the question of pursuing truth. I labeled that a fool's errand thinking they meant absolute truth, a metaphysical concept which is unknowable from our subjective viewpoint, and by which I did not mean the pursuit of knowledge, that being almost an imperative of our species. And here we see that even our cataloguing of agreed-upon experience has a limit. We can catalogue colors and agree on which color is which, name it, classify it based on wavelength but that doesn't speak to some larger, fundamental truth beyond our experiential knowledge (however abstracted through theory and measurement).
I would describe pain as something that your entire being rejects. Something you try to escape at every point. The stronger the pain, the stronger the need.
First off love your channel, really like how you don't spend alike of time with intro and stop the video every 30 seconds acting as if you never heard it before. Keep up the great work. That's awesome !! I was just explaining to a friend back in my partier days, some friends and I was discussing weather the red ash tray was was actually the same color to each of us. Because we was just told it was red was red and that's what we believed was red. He said we must have been smoking some good stuff. I'm just glad I actually know there is someone else out there that thinks the same way.
hard to go wrong with Vsauce. Some of my personal faves are "how hot can it get? " "what is the speed of dark?" "what if the earth stopped spinning?" and several others
Vsauce is the GOAT with learning complicated or mind bending things. My favorite of his is called "What will we miss", should be one of his most popular videos. Definitely watch that one.
genuinely surprised you've never come across Vsauce, i recommend basically any video that strikes your curiosity, Michael is a fantastic speaker and entertainer.
Book recommendation: "Shades of Grey - The Road to High Saffron" by Jasper Fforde It's a novel about living in a Colortocracy, where your social standing depends on which color(s) you can see. The novel has been often compared to "Brave New World" and "1984" - it is a dystopia, but written in a very humorous style. It has become my personal tradition to read it every year during the Christmas holidays, so I was just finished again now. Please read this book, I cannot recommend it enough!
Vsauce is a fantastic thought provoking / learning channel. I feel you will enjoy it quite a bit. Been watching your channel for a bit now. Love to see a curious, honest mind open to see the world.
Vsauce is one of my favorite channels and you should definitely do more reactions to him! I would suggest 1. The Zipf Mystery 2. Counting Past Infinity and 3. Spooky Coincidences !
For me, in light, the back of my eyelids appear red, with little light, it’s just a cold, empty void. And no matter what, there’s just splashed of random color floating around. The random colors always change but I can never catch the moment they change. If I open and close my eyes again they stay the same, but then the next day I’ll see a completely different splash of color.
Quali sounds like the root of cuali/cualitative, which I think is the epistemological counterpart of the concept of Quantum/quantitative information. Vsause and the channel Veratasium made 2 videos that explore this in an interesting way. "What is random" and "What isn't random?". Really mind-blowing. Awesome channel!
An African Grey Parrot asked a question once. It asked what colour it was. That's the only recorded case as far as I know which shows the parrot recognised that others may know something it didn't.
Great reaction, surprised you're just now coming across VSauce. Regarding how a person could describe colors to someone blind, the visible light wavelengths (nm) can be converted to THz and probably more effective to scale down (-12 OoM) further to Hz. Run it through a device to oscillate at the frequency representative of the color. The blind person would then be able to "feel the difference between colors". Enjoying your videos, keep up the great work.
Vsauce is a great channel with tons of thought provoking videos! It's definitely a worthy rabbit hole to dive down, whether for reactions or on your own.
When I close my eyes, I see mostly black with tiny splashes of colors. When I close my eyes on a sunny day, I get mostly white and other times with traces of orange and red.
Oh, when you described closing your eyes and seeing red I closed my eyes and saw red. Also when I take a shower, if I close my eyes when the water starts hitting me I see ripples.
Vsauce is an OG. Highly recommend viewing more of his stuff whether you review it here or not. He's one of the top science educators on UA-cam imo.
Together with Veritasium (or Ve, as in a chemical element) by Derek Muller..
@@gbormann71 Agreed. I feel like Vsauce does more of the psychological and philosophical stuff and Veritasium does more of the science and math, but they both do a little bit of everything and are great for education.
@@Puzzlesocks
Psychology and philosophy is science as well. Derek is more of a journalist than a science educator. As in he does reports on stuff found out in the world rather than exclusively interpolate educational resources. Especially last few years where he is mostly just a sponsor for various companies.
@@WhatIsSanity Philosophy is definitely not science. It's equally a bit of a stretch to call psychology a real science. It doesn't mean they aren't useful or interesting, but it's completely dishonest to refer to either of them as "science" on the same level as physics or neurobiology.
If your definition of science includes philosophy, then your definition is far too broad and completely useless for properly communicating with others.
@@Puzzlesocks
Science is data gathered using the scientific method, genius. Why don't you look up the meaning of the word before and going calling people redundant.
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't it's not science. I've read many studies in philosophy and psychology and have been learning about both for over ten years.
I know several people with degrees and PhDs that would back me up on this. I dare you to walk into a room full of Doctors and tell them they know nothing of science.
PLEASE more vsauce! :D
Agreed
If this video is any indication, I think I’d like that✔️
@@NoProtocol Vsauce is awesome-sauce!
Definitely!
Hell yeah! Vsauce old videos are a treasure.
Been watching Vsauce for years now, glad you did this vid! Love your channel!
This was the first thought-provoking conversation I ever had. I didn't find out the concept had a name until just now.
I asked my teacher this exact question in the 4th grade and I got in trouble because she believed that I was intentionally trying to disrupt class by asking ridiculous questions.
Should of poisoned her drink then laugh as she suffers
So silly for a teacher to subdue thought like that
Most teacher's are the kids from school who needed special ed.. most teachers have no place teaching
Messages For The Future & How The Earth Moves are particularly great ones by him. He's been making great content for over ten years and has only gotten better. He's definitely one of the more thought provoking science communicators of our generation. He never comes off as condescending either. He asks a thought provoking question, goes down a rabbit hole and lets us know what he found. His enthusiasm is icing on the cake.
How the Earth Moves is my personal favorite video he's done.
I think Vsauce is now one of those legendary channels.
I’ve never seen someone do a reaction video for it, however. I think you’ve stumbled into an incredible opportunity here.
I followed vsauce channel for years, it's a great food for thought chanel, and Michael has a good way to present the subjects that borderlines between humor and fright. Nice reaction.
discovered your channel recently, its a well-deserved change of pace from the rest of the reaction channels. love your vibe, keep up the good work
My grandfather was colourblind. One day he had to replace the paisley carpet on his stairs as it was worn out. When my father came home from school he burst into fits of laughter as the new carpet, despite having the correct paisley pattern was green whilst the carpet on the landing was red. It was the first time my grandfather knew he was colour blind and apparently my dad couldn't sit down for a week lol😂
My grandfather got his PhD in chemistry and only found out he was colorblind when he failed a colorblindness test as part of one of his job applications. I think he lost that job thanks to the test, but he ended up doing all right for himself in the end.
I can definitely recommend all 3 seasons of Vsauce's Mind Field, for personal viewing even. They are his regular videos with a higher budget basically. Very good content. Glad you're covering him, I'm sure you will love his other videos too. My personal top 3 is how people disappear, spooky coincidences and the zipf's mystery. All of them very curious, thought-provoking and contain lots of information for further study.
more vsauce PLEASE!!
Michael has been doing this stuff for decades at this point, and he has it down to a science literally.
You strike me as incredibly inquisitive and i loved seeing your facial reactions as you started to ask your own questions. I experience that everytime i watch a Vsaucr video!
I had the exact same thought. Watching NP's expressions as she either hears a new concept or is processing it is delightful. It's the reason that this is such a great channel. Her thirst for knowledge is contagious. I am so glad that I found her channel.
As a colorblind person I have been able to come to many of the conclusions shared in this video strictly through my own experiences of constantly trying to explain to people what I see and how color blindness works. Color seeing people struggle to understand why you can’t just learn that the color of grass is green. They can’t comprehend how it can actually look orange to a color blind person. It’s a fascinating subject.
i think for the future i recommend to you just showing them a colorblindness graph on google images, it shows how you see very well and you dont even know it (because you see 2 same images lmao), its like removing a crayon color entirely and putting a shade of the one next to it in its place
say you just have less colors of crayons to draw your world;D
I have synaesthesia which means I see sounds as colour. Only realised It was unusual 10 years ago when I asked my daughter can you see the colour of that note while teaching her guitar.
You should watch the Vsauce videos on Paradoxes, those are very interesting
I’ll put it on the list Mario!
Oh the many times I've tried to explain my colorblindness to friends. I frequently got odd looks for wearing mismatched colors that to my eye looked the same from my ex wife and friends 😆.
How interesting! I’d ask you what that’s like but now I’m unsure if it’s explicable
I live in a family of color blind people since the rarity of my maternal grandmother and grandfather where both colorblind. We all just know never to buy paint or clothing without a non family member.
@@NoProtocol I tried to explain numerous times to friends and family, and they always had this confused look on their face as a result. I've always been amazed seeing the videos of colorblind people wearing glasses to correct their colorblndness and their emotional reactions to seeing the world as it really is.
try explaining synthestisia xD. i see sounds
@@TheNecronacht Have you ever tried the glasses?
Like you, I thought about this often throughout my life and, also like you, have had an extremely difficult time trying to articulate the concept and get them to understand what I was thinking about.
My favorite VSauce video is “Which away is Down?” I must have seen it a dozen times and it never ceases to blow my mind.
There is actually a way to determine if my red is your green: illuminate a strawberry with red light then with green light. It should appear red first and black in the second case.
You gotta watch more Vsauce. One of my favorite channels of all time and Michael really gets you thinking about some interesting topics you may never have found. Also you said that you were interested in language, you should watch the "Misnomer" video by Vsauce. He goes a lot into language and word origins in that one. Hope you keep coming back to him!
Absolutely you need to watch more vsauce, this was the first video I watched of his and I've not missed an upload since. He's one of the most thought provoking channels on UA-cam, he has a way of explaining things that makes it easy to understand and yet you are left wanting more and asking more questions. I definitely look forward to you reacting to more vsauce if you decide to.
You are super contemplative in the simplest way. From your facial expressions and how you ask the listener’s questions to make the brain want to be better to match your query makes me smile super widely
red-green colourblind male here, annoyingly as a kid my mother told me I was totally colour blind so would not be able to do things I was interested in..
I'm a software developer now, the colours change while you type and I fucking love it :D
@@shinrapresident7010 yes but they seem a bit too expensive to take the plunge..
generally it's only a minor issue in artificial circumstances, at work I can use 'color blind' filters on screens etc :)
@@shinrapresident7010 "sorry darling I am leaving you, your eyes are just the wrong colour now" :D
Yay! I am colour blind in London. I am 68 and in 1973 just the odd 49 years ago, was the only time anyone noticed this when an old Accounts tape was replaced by a new one, where I could clearly see the distinction between Black(Debits) and Red (Credits).On the old faded tape, they looked the same. It is around 8% of Men and within that, it is 98% RED-BROWN-GREEN. In my local park, I thought the trees were all these colours but they are all shades of Green, apparently. For Women it is something like 0.00001% lol
Vsauce has a video called "How hot can it get?", you should definitely watch that one! Greetings from Finland
Noted! Thank you for the suggestion (:
Heya 😃
I just want to say thank you. You're reactions are always so interesting, because of the mix of fun & curiosity topics and thoughtful comments on them.
It's pretty rare to find "intellectual" reaction content, sooo thanks 😁
And because you asked: "The Zipf Mystery" from Vsauce was my first one I saw of him and it gave me the creeps. (still does) I highly recommend it for your list ^^
He also has a cool TED-Talk about "why do we ask questions?" which is also amazing IIRC. 🙂
Anyway, byee~
Yeah, Vsauce is awesome. My first video of them was the one talking about fear and why fear certain things.
First time VSauce? Nice! Wish I could rediscover Michael and them all over again, what a wonderful rabbit hole...
I had a servere squint from birth, so I never developed any stereoscopic depth perception. I developed my sight to be one eye only….
I mean, I can choose what eye I wish to use consciously. It does have an impact on my ability to most sports, but I played some hockey years ago. The coach one day decided to let us all use an eyepatch to cover one eye. I was as good (read: BAD) as always, but all others where more or less helpless in comparison to me. They told me to switch to the other eye, it didn’t change anything. It was my normal, not theirs.
My mother had an eye damaged when she was a child. That eye sees colors a different shade than the other. E.G. When one sees red, the other sees orange. She can watch 3D movies without needing glasses (though the 3D is more pronounced with them)
so theoretically, an eye transplant would allow each other to experience each others visual perception
@@vexvesper Somewhat. The eye is just a sensor. All it does is receive photons and nerves fire depending on frequency, wavelength, amplitude etc. It's the brain that takes that data and turns it into an image.
The eye is a camera. The optic nerve is an HDMI cable. Your brain is a graphics card. Your memory is photoshop.
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@@TheRealMirCat yeah youd have to transplant the whole vision system
I used to ask my parents this same question when I was a kid. Cuz there’s literally no way to know for sure. We could all be seeing, hearing, saying, tasting, smelling, and feeling very different things from what the next person thinks we are.
From the subject of taste, I think that is very clear. There are foods that just taste nasty to some people and taste delicious to others.
In this case it's because everyone has different taste receptors. Some people can chemicals that other people can't.
Such as Glucosinolate in broccoli. For some people, this tastes bitter.other people can't taste it at all.
This chemical is also in many major brands of beers, such as Budweiser.
@@Weaseldog2001 Yes, but we can't know if this is because both people are experiencing the same taste and just have different preferences, or if they're experiencing completely different tastes.
Someone could taste exactly what I taste when I eat chocolate, but their brain might react to that like I react when I taste coconut.
@@JosephRussellStapleton actually we know that people taste things differently, because not everyone has the same set of taste receptors.
Vsauce is a great channel. I think I first stumbled upon it around 2014 or so and pretty much binged the entire catalog of uploads over the course of several weeks and have kept up with each upload since. I miss the older style of shorter videos that were uploaded more often over the current longer format that only gets uploaded 2-3 times per year, but I also understand that Michael is much busier working on other projects now. You can't go wrong with reacting to any of the post-video game era Vsauce content.
he has youtube shorts that get uploaded every few days
@@vibaj16 I’m subscribed, so I see them in my feed. They’re nice, but you can’t compare them to the 8-10 minute videos he used to put out regularly back in the day.
I remember explaining this concept/question about colors to my friends when I was around 12 years old, and they all called me stupid for it. Colors are just a way for our brains to interpret and experience the different wavelengths of the color spectrum that our eyes can perceive, so who says all of our eyes do the thing when interpreting them? It’s all so fascinating!
This is actually more a proof that we do the same. When we evolve we evolve the same (in generic sense) that means we all should response similar to those frequencies.
@Parth Savyasachi: True, we evolve the same, generally, but we all have specific differences - especially when it comes to the senses. We all have preferences in tastes, smells, sounds, sights, etc., etc. This might be one of the ways that everyone's different from each other.
@@mikek0135 preference is quite different thing. For example i prefer hot and my wife prefers cold. Still 10 deg temperature is 10 deg temperature.
Here there are more reasons to believe that we all (including animals) see the colors the same.
The clues are in nature. For a short example green color contrast to red. We all know this. Now red flowers contrast to green leafs. Its important for flowers to stand out so that it could be carried by birds and spread seeds etc. That only means that to the birds too green and red contrast. (It means its very likely we all perceive color the same)
@@parthsavyasachi9348 thats not why we all see color the same, as you probably know because you sound smart, is color is from every other color frequency besides one bouncing off. its photons, and the shape of its frequent is lets say green for now.
the cones and rods in every human is shaped, well as cones and rods. this wavelength hits these two objects and we get the same message anyone else, besides color blind people, do. its because the photon and our eyes are certain shapes, that makes it certain that the same shape and size equipment will ensure similar results.
color blind people are also why we know people who arent color blind see the same colors. because we already know how to precieve color differently, we can observe and research color blindness, and detect the causes directly. if every person has this variants than color is perceived differently. but if only color blind people have this variant its safe to say everyone else sees green the same.
omg I'm begging on my knees MORE VSAUCE it's literally one of my favorite youtube channels of all time
Lol, I used to wonder about this when I was young as well, and still do in the back of my mind on occasion.
Your explanation of what you see as red makes perfect sense. Your eyelids are thin and light can get through them, but not without also traveling through their blood vessels. You're literally seeing that color through rose-tinted "glasses".
For years, I've considered Vsauce's "How People Disappear" the single greatest video on UA-cam and would definitely watch a reaction to it and more Vsauce in general!
From Vsauce, my selection of videos would be:
-Why Are Things Creepy?
-Is Earth actually Flat?
-How Earth Moves
-Which Way is Down?
-Illusions of Time
-Did People Used to look older?
Also, when I was younger the sense that people didn't or couldn't understand what I was feeling or trying to say was so frustrating - that I couldn't just take those things and like, transplant them into another person. That (in part) drove me to writing and music, trying to express myself in specific and unique ways; to try to create something external that represented my feelings as accurately as possible. But what you're thinking and feeling change as you engage with yourself, new information is added during externalization, some information will always be left out and even if that weren't the case, no one will interpret it the same way I do because they have different experiences, different ideas, emotions, personalities - different biology.
That's something that can feel quite defeating; what, then, is the point of any of this? But there is still meaning in sharing something - anything - with other people, because whatever you share will go through a process of evolution, changing form and meaning as others interpret it, being refined until there is either common acceptance of the thing's essence, or a recognition that such commonality can't be reached so it's back to the drawing board to try approaching from another angle or move on to something else. And in that way, we develop shared realities which are, to me, a collaborative work of art.
Watching your face as you absorb new information and marvel in unknown facts is priceless, your smile at acknowledged humor and understanding of deeper meanings is more interesting than the actual videos you review. UA-cam is a much better place with your videos, thanks.
Funny how you said you thought about it as a child. I had this thought when I was about 12 and my brother (10 years older) was really intrigued and said, he never thought about it. I have since communicated this to many people and most of them, not only never seem to think about such things, many even failed to understand the concept.
I've always thought questions like these are so interesting. So much of what we experience visually is based solely on our brain's interpretation (and often hallucination) that we'll likely never have a true answer unless we find a way linguistically.
Vsauce and another channel called Sci-Show are the OG educational YT channels to whom everyone should be subbed in my opinion.
This is also a question that I often tried to articulate to others with not much success, thinking that it might have an answer but never having found one. This video and your comments were enlightening in realizing, that at least in our encased and limited 4 dimensional reality, there is no answer. Each one of us is the center of our universe and it's very existence is determined by our perception of it. Each of us is unique, and irreplaceable and that is the insurmountable obstacle that makes us human and foils all those who strive to find an algorithm for a one size fits all utopia. We can all experience the same things, but the perception is very personal. Your channel is a refreshing presence on an incredible platform for the distribution of thoughts and ideas as well as the promotion of curiosity, that as we know, is the genesis of knowledge. Thank you.
You can tell what color people see by the effects of that color on them. For example, if my red was blue, i would describe red as calming, but no people always say red is passoinate or fiery. If my red was your green, i would describe red as healthy.
But do you see red as fiery and passionate because the colour provokes that in you. Or is it because we were taught that. Our blood is red, when people are angry, or excited, or aroused their skin gets redder. We associate red more with fire than blue because its more common in fire. Sometimes its even said when you get angry you see red. Blue on the other hand we associate with clear skies and soothing water. Of course it makes is feel calm. What I'm saying is, if a blind man saw for the first time and we showed him colours without the context we grew up with, would colours inspire the same reaction in him.
3:00 that's the problem with eyewitnesses
I have 15/20 vision (better than 20/20) and am not color blind, but whenever I play video games, I always turn on the protanopia color blind setting, because it’s easier on the eyes.
I've been fascinated by this idea for so long. I'm also excited that there are others that take it seriously.
4:44 As a nurse assessing pain can be difficult we often rely on a patient’s reporting. If the patient is unable to communicate the pain we have different assessments tools that try to approximate their pain.
Thanks for another great selection, and response. In regards to talking about pain (this is a tangent to what you both were talking about), as someone who experienced a fair deal of pain in a serious car accident, our brains (understandably) can't remember pain, the way we remember happiness (you remember a moment and you re-experience that feeling). We can remember that it was painful, but can't recall how it felt. We can do that with other emotions/feelings, but not pain. As I said, there's a reason for it, the brain doesn't want to relive it. Along the lines of what you and he said, pain is a lonely thing.
Although Karl Pilkington solved our 'the Dr can't feel the pain, so can't diagnose it' with a 'machine' 🙂
I'd definitely recommend Vsauce's "Why Are Things Creepy?"
if you're looking for more vsauce to watch i highly recommend the prime time classics from 7-9 years old, they are similar to this one, short, fun and twisted, hope to see more of him here, it suits you
Vsauce is awesome, I've watched everyone of his videos. He's slowed down the last few years but every episode is good. Oh and he always finds a new way to enter the frame when they do a "take" which is a funny quirk I always appreciated.
that is why is so complicated to describe the taste of food in words, we can describe some carateristics that we presume the audience was prior experience and this gave em the same feeling to us
every Vsauce video is worth watching. Micheal is just so amazing at cracking open subjects in very thought provoking ways. I get the feeling you would enjoy most of his videos if not all of them.
Ask a University student exactly how to put an elephant into a refrigerator?.
They will say Open the door, put the elephant in, close the door.
Now ask them exactly how do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
They will repeat, Open the door put the giraffe in and close the door.
Ask a 5 year old the exact same question and on the second answer they add: Take the elephant out, THEN put the giraffe in.
I believe this is because children are more perceptual of their immediate existence and its effects last longer than an adults.
Thoughts?
I experienced this once when I was calibrating a color printer. Three different people were looking at the same colors and it quickly became apparent to me that all 3 of them were seeing the same colors differently. I was amazed by this and had to research it further. Also neither of the people were color blind according to them. Amazing!
I've been watching Vsauce since I was a kid and literally just take a look through their videos, they're all very interesting
Hmmm "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view" - Obi
I'm colour blind ,I can't tell the difference between red and amber in traffic lights,i mix up other colours as well ,both my brother's are as well, it's genetic ,the reason men are more likely to be colour blind is because colour blindness is the result of a defect in their X chromosome, men have one X chromosome ,whereas women have two X chromosomes ,if one of a woman's X chromosomes is defective the other one takes over .❤️
My favorite vsauce video is “how people disappear” A simple question yet answered with a variety of answers, most definitely a must watch
i can remember back in the 90s when the Discovery channel had this documentary on childhood development which included the sally-anne experiment. they had a bunch of children of varying ages do physical, mental and emotional tests. it was quite fascinating to see at what age certain things in our brain clicked like a sense of self, a sense of others, spatial awareness, etc.
Sympathy, compassion and empathy are also subjects people intensely differ in. Thats why the Sally Anne test is so interesting. Same with sensitivity of the skin and the senses. I've always thought about this and how people are so different concerning these subjects because their experiences are so different.
Vsauce had so many more videos like this. One of my favorites is that of him talking about the concept of infinity.
His collaboration with Veritasium on the concept of chance and randomness are two really interesting videos.
You see red with you're eyes closed because you see the light passing though your eyelids and blood vessels.
"There is no reality only perception"- Einstein
Sorry Albert but when Billy Furze punched me ad I went down in one hit,in St Peters Park,Walworth,South East London,England in 1963 that was definitely NOT perception even though it was 59 years ago:)
Another bullshit quote
Einstein never said that. Don't make shit up and attribute it to other people.
Best reaction channel on UA-cam. I love the content you choose to react to. Keep up the great work.
I've seen videos of someone who was born deaf hearing for the first time (they seem very amazed and happy), but I've never seen a video of someone who was born blind seeing for the first time. We may not have the technology to make that happen yet, but it would be cool to witness their reaction to seeing all the different colors and finding out if they were anything like what they had imagined they would be.
maybe one day we could stream a video directly to a blind persons brain and make them see it, maybe, hope their brain doesnt melt from that crazy event though
Loved your analysis and thoughts on this topic. Definitely reccommend more Vsauce
POV this is a regular thing you think about but it is still profound to hear her talk about.
This reminds me of a discussion I had yesterday on the question of pursuing truth. I labeled that a fool's errand thinking they meant absolute truth, a metaphysical concept which is unknowable from our subjective viewpoint, and by which I did not mean the pursuit of knowledge, that being almost an imperative of our species. And here we see that even our cataloguing of agreed-upon experience has a limit. We can catalogue colors and agree on which color is which, name it, classify it based on wavelength but that doesn't speak to some larger, fundamental truth beyond our experiential knowledge (however abstracted through theory and measurement).
Great choice of video! I work with color measurement and the electromagnetic spectrum 40 hours of week and love it! This is my kind of stuff! 😊
I used to binge Vsauce so much back in the day. Definitely worth checking more.
I can recommend the VSauce video called "the science of awkwardness", it is(to me) one of the most interesting videos Michael has made to date.
I would loooove to just sit down and talk about random stuff with you, best reaction UA-camr period
I would describe pain as something that your entire being rejects.
Something you try to escape at every point.
The stronger the pain, the stronger the need.
First off love your channel, really like how you don't spend alike of time with intro and stop the video every 30 seconds acting as if you never heard it before. Keep up the great work.
That's awesome !! I was just explaining to a friend back in my partier days, some friends and I was discussing weather the red ash tray was was actually the same color to each of us. Because we was just told it was red was red and that's what we believed was red. He said we must have been smoking some good stuff. I'm just glad I actually know there is someone else out there that thinks the same way.
Definitely recommend more Vsauce, super awesome personality and very thought-provoking videos
hard to go wrong with Vsauce. Some of my personal faves are "how hot can it get? "
"what is the speed of dark?"
"what if the earth stopped spinning?"
and several others
1:44 same! No one understood wtf I'm trying to say
Vsauce is the GOAT with learning complicated or mind bending things. My favorite of his is called "What will we miss", should be one of his most popular videos. Definitely watch that one.
trying to explain pain to an alien who can never feel pain is like trying to explain red and blue to a blind person.
Standing facing the sun. Closed my eyes red/yellow. But that’s only because I can see
genuinely surprised you've never come across Vsauce, i recommend basically any video that strikes your curiosity, Michael is a fantastic speaker and entertainer.
Love these deep questions. Always great stuff
Book recommendation: "Shades of Grey - The Road to High Saffron" by Jasper Fforde
It's a novel about living in a Colortocracy, where your social standing depends on which color(s) you can see. The novel has been often compared to "Brave New World" and "1984" - it is a dystopia, but written in a very humorous style. It has become my personal tradition to read it every year during the Christmas holidays, so I was just finished again now. Please read this book, I cannot recommend it enough!
I’ve never heard of it but the gist sounds like something I’d be interested in. Thanks for bringing it up!
"you shall know Pain"
you have such a great insight and are very well spoken, glad i found your channel
Vsauce is a fantastic thought provoking / learning channel. I feel you will enjoy it quite a bit.
Been watching your channel for a bit now. Love to see a curious, honest mind open to see the world.
Vsauce is one of my favorite channels and you should definitely do more reactions to him!
I would suggest
1. The Zipf Mystery
2. Counting Past Infinity
and
3. Spooky Coincidences !
would love for you to watch more vsauce!
Some of my faves: "What will we miss", "Will we ever run out of new music" and "What if the sun disappeared"
Ooh ooh id like to recommend "did people used to look older?" Super interesting speaking of perception.
"So, if you have any other videos from this channel that you want to recommend..."
Me: "All of them."
For me, in light, the back of my eyelids appear red, with little light, it’s just a cold, empty void. And no matter what, there’s just splashed of random color floating around. The random colors always change but I can never catch the moment they change. If I open and close my eyes again they stay the same, but then the next day I’ll see a completely different splash of color.
"Which Way is Down?" is my favourite VSauce video, followed by "Math Magic"
Quali sounds like the root of cuali/cualitative, which I think is the epistemological counterpart of the concept of Quantum/quantitative information. Vsause and the channel Veratasium made 2 videos that explore this in an interesting way. "What is random" and "What isn't random?". Really mind-blowing. Awesome channel!
I would always recommend Vsause. He has created some of the most thought provoking, explanatory, and interesting videos on the internet.
An African Grey Parrot asked a question once. It asked what colour it was. That's the only recorded case as far as I know which shows the parrot recognised that others may know something it didn't.
Great reaction, surprised you're just now coming across VSauce. Regarding how a person could describe colors to someone blind, the visible light wavelengths (nm) can be converted to THz and probably more effective to scale down (-12 OoM) further to Hz. Run it through a device to oscillate at the frequency representative of the color. The blind person would then be able to "feel the difference between colors".
Enjoying your videos, keep up the great work.
Vsauce is a great channel with tons of thought provoking videos! It's definitely a worthy rabbit hole to dive down, whether for reactions or on your own.
When I close my eyes, I see mostly black with tiny splashes of colors. When I close my eyes on a sunny day, I get mostly white and other times with traces of orange and red.
Oh, when you described closing your eyes and seeing red I closed my eyes and saw red. Also when I take a shower, if I close my eyes when the water starts hitting me I see ripples.