Jason Silva on Color | Brain Games

color is not an inherent quality of
objects in the world color is a
construct color is an illusion created
between your brain interacting with the
properties of luminescence reflectivity
and shadow think about the take away of
that idea we can only know the world
through the signals that are perceived
through our instruments that we call the
sense our consciousness sits in our
brain which sits behind two inches of
skull our eyes are not windows from
which our brain sees the world the world
is constructed for you by your brain
using the limited information that it
can receive through the senses the rest
is fill in the blank it’s a theater that
we put on for ourselves we can never
know the world directly all we can know
is a representation of rendering a
cosmic dance between our brain and those
signals coming in and our brain is
throwing in intention expectations
preconceptions stereotypes all these
things are also informing what we
perceive you start with this idea that
color doesn’t exist you end with the
idea that nothing really can be known
directly so that everything it is itself
a rendering or a simulation
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