I think it is likely both. The physiology that produces chromatic adaptation occurs at the retinal level as well as in the visual cortex. Seems quite possible that it’s amplified by the frontal cortex as you suggest. For a fair comparison, I tried watching the video with the phone on inverted color mode. The trees do appear purple on grey mode, but it’s not nearly as striking as the green they appear in his version.
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this kind of mind-flip is how color filters on old war photos tricked me for years,i kept “seeing” real greens in b&w jungle shots. expectations definitely ran the show until a buddy showed me raw scans.
what’s a similar thing that skewed your reality before you caught it?