The Color Consistency and Red Light Perception

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Pasco is a scientist who studies cognition and perception. In February of 2015 when the dress quote unquote surface no dress on social media on tumbra Pasco first saw the dress he had the same experience the rest of us had. This led to his new obsession to his current obsession which we are exploring from here on out in this episode and the next. It was a portal into a new scientific landscape it has me super excited you know what i mean? We have all kinds implications philosophically for qualia and red light perception and so red light you see seems liberal i've seen all that All of that was blown wide open in um February of 2015when the dress quote

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE.

This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience.

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