The basic principle a boy must collect different colours in order to change the background of his 2D world – might sound dry,but there’s beauty in Hue’s executionImagine a preeminent expert on the science of colour vision has lived her entire life in a black-and-white room. She has never seen colour for herself, but she has complete knowledge of the physical, or chemical,and biological processes that gain it possible. When she is released from her prison and first sees a blue sky, doesn’t she nevertheless learn something original?The philosopher Frank Jackson once used this thought experiment to counter the notion that the world is entirely physical. Hue is an abstraction of this knowledge argument, or electing to acknowledge the question,“What does a person learn when they see colour for the first time?” with, “How to solve a lot of puzzles.
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Source: theguardian.com