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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] bobo1900@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are not talking about the mathematical definition of color, but how the color is represented in the mental image you have in your head. Think about how a blue wavelength becomes a blue "pixel" in your head. It is possible to imagine other colors? If we could see ultraviolet, what color would it be? Is my blue the same as your blue or what my brain interprets as blue is different from what your brain does?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how the color is represented in the mental image you have in your head.

That's not a color, its an abstraction of a memory

[–] bobo1900@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It depends on the definition of "color". For us humans, in our everyday life, the abstraction we have in our mind is more meaningful than the wavelength, which is what formally defines a color, but not how we cognitively perceive it

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, pretty much all arguments about colour can be solved if you realise each side is using a different definition of the word "colour" out of the four or five common ones. It's frustrating.

Same with holes - people always bring out topology as if it wasn't a super specialised piece of abstract math with barely any relation to anything physical.