Is Your Blue Different Than Everybody Else's? - A Thought Experiment by Ludwig Wittgenstein

We know that blue things are blue, painful things are painful, and happy things are happy. But what do these things look and feel like for other people? And can we ever know for sure? In this video, we reference and interpret Ludwig Wittgenstein's beetle in a box 'thought experiment' in an attempt to explore these questions.

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[eduardobetancourt]

Lowkey this idea used to give me extreme anxiety when I was like 5

[black-rose]

Tried explaining this to my parents and have never been so frustrated in my life so thanks for the video

[Mwriggles]

I always try to imagine a colour that doesn’t exist

[hannahadams]

“you can’t see my beetle and i can’t see yours” would make a wonderful idiom

[somespecies]

Never thought I'd have an intense existential crisis from the color blue

[KungFuPanda]

when you said "i can never see your beetle, and you can never see mine" i felt that 😩😩

[prokokex]

"EACH OF US HOLDS THE ANSWER THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER ACCESS"

- someone whose answers u can't access

[jackcr]

What if we all have the same favourite colour and favourite tastes but call it something different

[flowerpot]

This is really scary when you think about it

[maikalnait]

Art is the closest thing to accurately express emotions

[shadyx]

This is honestly something I’ve thought of every once in a while, I thought I was the only one

[surge]

when you’re depressed and someone says “i know how you feel, trust me” *insert video*

[우유딸기-fw]

I'll wait for everyone when this gets recommended to them after 5 years

[leonajasz]

I tried to explain my cousin what their house smells like (if a person is somewhere for too long their brain starts to ignore the smell thats there) but i couldnt find the right words and even tho i tried to compare the smell to colors and shapes i couldnt come up with something that would 100% describe the smell, things like bubbles and pink were just too specific or like too real and too materialistic. i think its a pity that people cant exactly share what they smell, hear, see or feel.

[emoji-lover]

I’m gonna cry, this makes me feel special. As a suicidal individual, it makes me feel like the world needs my version of it to exist

[cocoazest]

so why does this make me feel sad?


you wouldn’t know how i feel anyways.

[eveykrushensky]

this is deadass what goes on in my head when i’m trying to fall sleep

[stefanandrejevic]

i was always thinking like "does everyone see the same colors are me? are their colors normal and mine not?"

[darliaivlieva]

I’m about to pull a “don’t HMU” on my Instagram story after this

[garrettparks]

The grass going up the nose made me uncomfortable