people sharing this “is my blue your blue” thing not realizing that color categorization is
a) a social construct
b) quite literally, a spectrum
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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 01:38:46 JST Matthew Lyon -
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josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 02:20:28 JST josh susser @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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⛈️ Information ⛈️ (elucidating@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 02:26:26 JST ⛈️ Information ⛈️ @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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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 02:31:01 JST Matthew Lyon 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”
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