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Writer, UBC Philosophy, Assoc Member Asian Studies & Psych Depts. Married to @beckettodd

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    1. Chaz Firestone‏ @chazfirestone Mar 13
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      Sometimes scientists are the wrong sources for these stories. We don't do this professionally. Interview philosophers!https://twitter.com/chazfirestone/status/1238520795753635841 …

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      Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone
      "there’s no sound out there…the crash is an effect that happens in the brain" "pain is not in your toe, but in your brain" "There’s no color out there either. Atoms are colorless" "You don’t even see in three dimensions" !?
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    2. John Kubie‏ @JohnKubie Mar 13
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      Replying to @chazfirestone

      the best description of "red" is not a wavelength of light but a reflectance property of a surface (relative to its surround). Information about the surface, not light.

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    3. Chaz Firestone‏ @chazfirestone Mar 13
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      yes, that's exactly what I have in mind! and seems opposite to what the author is saying, no? if colors are reflectance properties of surfaces, then they are most definitely "out there"!

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    4. Chaz Firestone‏ @chazfirestone Mar 13
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      but i'm disregarding my own advice. i'm an amateur; there are professionals who do this better than psychologists and neuroscientists

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    5. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara Mar 13
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      Replying to @chazfirestone @JohnKubie

      Colors are neither inside nor outside, they are interactive kinds, that show up as they do because of the kinds of visual systems we have, and the kinds of reflectance properties they’ve evolved to track as colorful.

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    6. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Mar 13
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @chazfirestone @JohnKubie

      Not just reflectance properties; light polarization and gradients in the sky (birds, insects), bioluminescence (fishes, marine organisms). Colour is indeed interactional/relational and can't be reduced to surface spectral reflectance

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. 𖤐 🔥Bryce 🔥𖤐‏ @NeuroYogacara Mar 13
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      Replying to @evantthompson @chazfirestone @JohnKubie

      Evan’s book on this is a classic: https://evanthompson.me/colour-vision/  and I really like Mazviita Chirimuuta’s recent book as well https://outsidecolour.net/ 

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      Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Mar 13
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      Replying to @NeuroYogacara @chazfirestone @JohnKubie

      Thanks, Bryce!

      11:45 AM - 13 Mar 2020
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