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On the Philosophical Standpoint of a Recent Mathematical Color Perception Model

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The problem of explaining color perception has fascinated painters, philosophers and scientists throughout the history. In many cases, the ideas and discoveries about color perception in one of these categories influenced the others, thus resulting in one of the most remarkable cross-fertilization of human thought. At the end of the nineteenth century, two models stood out as the most convincing ones: Young-Helmholtz’s trichromacy on one side, and Hering’s opponency on the other side. The former was mainly supported by painters and scientists, although with some noticeable exceptions as, e.g., Otto Runge, while the majority of philosophers supported the latter. These two apparently incompatible models were proven to be two complementary parts of the hugely complex chain of events which leads to human color perception. Recently, a rigorous mathematical theory able to incorporate both trichromacy and opponency has been developed thanks to the use of the language and tools of quantum information. In this paper, we discuss the placement of this model within the philosophical theories about color.
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Filippo Pelucchi, Michel Berthier, Edoardo Provenzi. On the Philosophical Standpoint of a Recent Mathematical Color Perception Model. Foundations of Science, 2024, ⟨10.1007/s10699-024-09951-2⟩. ⟨hal-04575499⟩
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