people sharing this “is my blue your blue” thing not realizing that color categorization isa) a social constructb) quite literally, a spectrum
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people sharing this “is my blue your blue” thing not realizing that color is
a) for categorization, a social construct
b) quite literally, a spectrum -
re: categorization, this is even moreso with the “moods” that many people doing “color theory” claim that for example “blue is calming” or “red is angry” were handed down from on high and that’s just the way it is, despite the evidence numerous differences in these associations across time and cultures
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@mattly One of the things I am delighted to realize is that categorization is obviously an internal feature of our brain we repurpose a lot, and it appears to be very fundamental to our biology and not an obscure or unique function. That obvious observation has wild implications.
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@mattly I remember watching a video a few decades ago that showed an experiment in a local jail where they held male prisoners in two different cells, one painted baby-boy blue, the other painted baby-girl pink. There was a correlation of calmer prisoners in the pink cell, more anxious in the blue cell. (Why do all these psychology experiments sound so janky?)
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@Elucidating yeah; I had a realization about this in college during a similar discussion of color theory:
a lot of people don’t realize that their model of how the world is organized isn’t actually *real* it’s just a tool their brain made to help them make sense of things
I was especially shocked that artists were making this error, because learning to draw forces you to confront it; you cannot draw a hand so long as you mentally label what you see as “a hand”
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@Elucidating I came across these passages while reading to my kid and it struck me as a similar idea:
A quote from A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett — ‘Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it 'opening your eyes again.' Bu...
(www.goodreads.com)
A quote from A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett — ‘You humans are so good at ignoring things. You are almost blind and almost deaf. You look at a tree and see…just a tree, a stiff weed....
(www.goodreads.com)
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@joshsusser Because we’re so collectively bad at looking at things holistically?
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I had a realization about this in college during a similar discussion of color theory:
a lot of people don’t realize their model of the world isn’t actually *real* it’s just a tool their brain made to help them make sense of things; it’s not “how the world is organized” it’s “how *I* organize the world”
I was especially shocked that artists were making this error; learning to draw forces you to confront it – you cannot draw a hand so long as you mentally label what you see as “a hand”