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color
Also known as: color, colors, Color, colour
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Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 3 facts
perspectiveThe "thin" view of phenomenal properties in consciousness argues that phenomenal properties are limited to qualia representing basic sensory properties, such as colors, shapes, tones, and feels, and excludes cognitive states like believing or thinking.
claimAusten Clark (1993) and Paul M. Churchland (1995) argue that formal understandings of qualitative spaces are important for understanding qualitative properties in general, even if color is currently the only well-developed example.
referenceC. Hardin published 'Color for Philosophers' through Hackett in 1986.
Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 3 facts
claimWhile individuals may be unsure how to characterize a specific sensation (such as misidentifying a color), the sensation itself remains certain and indubitable.
claimThe presence of general concepts in the human mind suggests that there is not always a one-to-one relation between ideas and corresponding sense impressions, as seen when forming a general concept of the color blue from various instances of blue.
claimDavid Hume argues that where there are no impressions, there can be no ideas, using the example that a blind man can have no notion of color.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
claimThe mechanistic worldview banished colors from the material world, attributing them instead to the causal powers of physical objects acting on the mind.
quoteIsaac Newton wrote to Henry Oldenburg: “... to determine by what modes or actions light produceth in our minds the phantasm of colour is not so easie.”
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Apr 1, 2024 1 fact
claimSensational associative learning explains why sounds of different pitch are experienced as ordinal in correspondence to their wavelengths, while colors of different hue are not.
[PDF] David Chalmers, 'The hard problem of consciousness' openlearninglibrary.mit.edu Feb 15, 2016 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers identifies the consciousness of shapes and colors as components of a conscious inner life.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimPhysical properties, such as size, weight, shape, color, and motion through space and time, are public in the sense that they are in principle equally observable by anyone, sometimes requiring scientific equipment.
Ethnobotanical and Food Composition Monographs of Selected ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua 1 fact
referenceAlarcão-E-Silva et al. (2001) studied the color and chemical characteristics of the Arbutus berry at two different mature stages.
The effects of screen time on children: The latest research parents ... health.choc.org Aug 27, 2024 1 fact
quote“For things like numbers, letters, colors, shapes, spatial size and red relations, they tended to score higher on these rather than their peers who watched more general adult TV,” Dr. Yang says.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimColors were banished from the world of matter in the mechanistic worldview and replaced with the 'causal powers' of physical things to produce the experience of color in the mind.
Global Versus Local Theories of Consciousness and the ... link.springer.com 1 fact
claimAccording to global workspace theory, if only information about motion is broadcasted within a system, the subject will be conscious of motion but not of form or color.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
claimMary, a hypothetical subject who knows all physical facts about colors, learns a new phenomenal fact upon seeing a red rose for the first time, which suggests that phenomenal facts are non-physical.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
perspectiveKeith Turausky (2012) explores the hypothesis that there is a single fundamental mental quality that contains all other mental qualities, analogous to how white light contains all colors.