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The inverted spectrum is the hypothetical concept, pertaining to the philosophy of color, of two people sharing their color vocabulary and discriminations, although the colors one sees—one's qualia—are systematically different from the colors the other person sees. The concept dates back to John Locke.[1] It invites us to imagine that we wake up one morning, and find that for some unknown reason all the colors in the world have been inverted, i.e. swapped to the hue on the opposite side of a color wheel, the complementary color.[citation needed] Furthermore, we discover that no physical changes have occurred in our brains or bodies that would explain this phenomenon. Supporters of the hypothesis of qualia as non-physical entities argue that, since we can imagine this happening without contradiction, it follows that we are imagining a change in a property that determines the way things look to us, but that has no physical basis. In more detail: The argument thus states that if we find t

Inverted spectrum - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thought experiment The inverted spectrum is the hypothetical scenario, pertaining to the philosophy of color , of two people sharing their color vocabulary and discriminations, although the colors one sees—that person's qualia —are systematically different from the colors the other person sees. Overview [ edit ] Inverted qualia . The concept dates back to John Locke . [ 1 ] It invites us to imagine two individuals who perceive colors differently: where one person sees red, the other sees green, and vice versa.

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