How to understand what Kenya Hara means by "white"

Kenya Hara's book "Design in Design" has a chapter dedicated to "white". The following quotes are from this book.

First, he argues that white is not just a color, but that it must be called a design concept. "White" allows other colors to be avoided, but is rich in its own diversity. "A really good white color, I would feel that the sensations stored in the brain are combined and reinforced as a whole." (p212)

Secondly, "white" is not a kind of white, but an accommodation of feeling white. When you understand white, you can understand "stillness" and "emptiness". This is similar to the concept of white space in Chinese painting.

Again, he believes that the human perception of color is an integrated one, and that color is not only visual, but that it is related to all human perceptions. Kenya Hara uses a color scale called: Japanese Traditional Colors. It is able to express the subtle emotional aspects of color. In this sense, traditional color is actually a way of looking at color, a way of tasting color. But in the modern world, the subtlety of feeling is gradually deteriorating. White is one of the traditional Japanese colors, and one of the most prominent.

Again, white contains the concepts of nothing and zero. It is more an object that senses and supports aesthetics. It eschews color and strongly calls for materiality, a material and empty space and edge.

Finally, white contains the original item of information and life. Kenya Hara introduces a sense of entropy, arguing that white is the extreme of negative entropy. Rising from chaos, it is the original form of life and information and is driven cleanly away from every kind of chaos. Moving on to a literalist perspective, white is the symbol of the skull in ancient texts and gives signs of the whiteness of life. White exists around life. For example, milk is white, and food as a life is white, which he thinks is an interesting phenomenon.

I went to see the Shanghai exhibition last week, and I had flipped through the book beforehand, so I didn't really feel much about the exhibition, but I found his promotional ads for the 2005 Aichi Expo very interesting.