Kyro comments on Consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 10 January 2010 01:32:07AM 2 points [-]

This article contains three simple questions which I want to see answered. To organize the discussion, I'm creating a thread for each question, so people with an answer can state it or link to it. If you link, please provide a brief summary of your answer here as well.

First question: Where is color?

I see a red apple. The redness, I grant you, is not a property of the thing that grew on the tree, the object outside my skull. It's the sensation or perception of the apple which is red. However, I do insist that something is red. But if reality is nothing but particles in space, and empty space is not red, and the particles are not red, then what is? What is the red thing; where is the redness?

Comment author: Kyro 07 April 2011 01:19:50AM 0 points [-]

Color is in the wavelength of the photon. Blue is a label we use to identify a particular frequency range within the electromagnetic spectrum.

Comment author: pjeby 07 April 2011 03:09:35AM 0 points [-]

Color is in the wavelength of the photon.

This is a bit of a simplification, actually... some of the colors we can see are not a single wavelength. That's why a rainbow doesn't contain every color we can see.

Comment author: wedrifid 07 April 2011 04:12:08AM 0 points [-]

This is a bit of a simplification, actually... some of the colors we can see are not a single wavelength. That's why a rainbow doesn't contain every color we can see.

Like brown, for example?