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[Article] Scientists hijacked the human eye to get it to see a brand-new color. It's called 'olo.'
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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Wouldn't it be more accurate to describe it as a brand new eye stimuli? There is no new color added to the spectrum, just a new way to get electrical signals to the brain?
Well really every single wave length could conceivably be a unique colour if we had receptors for it..what we see of the full spectrum, does not really represent the spectrum .
Since they stimulated only the M cone without the S and L getting the normal natural stimulation for green, they technically are seeing a new level of green colour (since red and blue got 0)