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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Music is a pattern of wiggling air. Color is just a frequency of wiggling because all light is wiggling, but not a pattern of frequencies. I think it would be more congruent is the statement were "movies are just the wiggling of the electromagnetic field".

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not all colors are just a single frequency. Like, magenta can only exist as a sum of red and blue light. So colors are also patterns of wiggling

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I can't tell you how pleasing it is to see this take instead of the usual "magenta isn't real" bit

[–] lingh0e 13 points 5 months ago

Seriously. I'm tired of those goons parroting the usual magenda.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If magenta isn't real, then white isn't real either lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No color is 'real'. Only frequencies are real. But colors are real in our minds, just as sound is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

None of the human senses are real. It's all just our brains trying to make sense of the limited information we can get

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

color isnt even that, cos magenta isnt a frequency. color is a useful lie your brain tells itself about the materials it can see.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

brain gets information it can't process

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Me: "Why do I smell marshmallows when I look at that thing that isn't a marshmallow?"