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Building intuition with color

Building intuition with color

ramblings on color and perception

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Lindsay Stripling
Jul 17, 2023
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I have a distinct memory from when I was a kid, probably like 5 or 6 years old, riding in the car in the ‘way back’ of my mom’s station wagon. I remember thinking to myself about perception of color and sitting with this question for quite awhile: “How do I know that the blue I see is the same as the person next to me?” I asked my mom and she told me sh…

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