Week 3 - Melanie Duronio "Qualia"

 Qualia: (noun) Describes the sensations of experience or the feels of something; describes how an experience tastes, looks, or sounds, "Take a sunset, if you will, in reality, all we’re really seeing are wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum [...] but your eyes turn those wavelengths into information, and your brain turns that information into yellow and orange, or into an experience.  And the colors themselves as you see them are the qualia,” (There’s No Such Thing As Orange, exurb1a on YouTube).

I discovered this word while watching a video by a YouTuber called exurb1a, whose known for making content about through information about science and philosophy. In his latest video, "There's No Such Thing As Orange" he explained how our brain transforms wavelengths and chemicals into sensations and experiences, such as how our brain can take the wavelengths of light from a sunset and turn it into a scene that we can observe. I chose the word "qualia" because I found its definition extremely interesting, and it made me think of facts about the human brain that I had never considered before.