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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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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Replying to @JohnKubie
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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Replying to @chazfirestone @JohnKubie
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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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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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
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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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Thanks, Bryce!
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