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I had the hood of a car come down on the back of my head when I was taking out an alternator.
I saw all kinds of new colors!
You could have done something more productive, like coming up with the Flux capacitor....
I know I heard about a group in Africa (IIRC) where they have a lot more words for greens, but they don't have a word for blue, or something like that. When given a test to identify the odd color out, when it's a very slight tint change of green they identify it quickly, but most westerners take a lot longer. When all of them are green, but then there's a blue one, they take a long time, but westerners see it instantly.
It's why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed. Just our launguage can shape our recognition of the world. Imagine how much the rest of our culture, education, and surroundings influence us. None of these make us better or smarter than anyone else, yet they'll all make us better or worse at different things. They're all valuable, and it's part of why diversity, equity, and inclusion are so important. These different points of view can bring so much value to us
The same is true for English too.
Brown and orange are different brightness levels of the same colour. Brown is dark orange and orange is light brown. Yet people experience brown and orange as separate colours, because we have separate words for it, while we experience light blue and dark blue as different brightness levels of the same colour, because both are called "blue".
It’s why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed.
Since you have failed to correctly define the words “highfalutin”, “dogsbody”, “apiary”, “valise”, “collet”, “haruspex”, “threnody”, or even “copse”, we regret to inform you that you are functionally illiterate and likely mentally disabled.
highfalutin
Person that farts a lot
dogsbody
Body of dog
apiary
BEES
valise
That stuff that reduces friction
collet
Piece of meat
haruspex
Protagonist no. 2 of Pathologic, and protagonist of Pathologic 2
threnody
Made up word
copse
Corpse without r
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I didn't know Pathologic took place in the world of Harry Potter.
The visual spectrum is finite. So it's an impossible task.
There's actually impossible colors that can be seen by playing with the visual spectrum of the color sensitive molecules. You can also play with visual processing to further see impossible colors
I'm not saying there's infinite combinations, but there's ones you've never seen and no one has a word for
Brown is not in the color spectrum, doesn't have a wavelength, yet we can imagine it and see it.
Space is a finite number (three) of dimensions, yet we can imagine space with higher number of dimensions.
Brown is on the colour spectrum, it does have a wavelength. Specifically, it has the same wavelength as orange. Because brown is dark orange and orange is light brown.
What's not on the colour spectrum are multi-wavelength mixed colours like e.g. red and blue light combining to something that looks like spectral violet. And while these multi-wavelength colours are physically different than a pure spectral colour, the sensation to a human is identical, because both trigger the cone cells in the eyes in an identical way. Which is why we can have screens that only emit three colours and still trigger the same sensations as millions of different spectral colours.
Really ? Cool, I didn't know.
I can't find the wavelength online, can you tell me what wavelength brown is exactly ? By that I mean any specific length that if a light source only emits that wavelength would be brown.
590-620nm. Identical to orange.
The difference between brown and orange is the brightness level, and since the eyes have an automatic brightness adjustment, brightness levels only appear in context.
Light becomes a darker variant if there's brighter light around and vice versa. Shine brown/orange light into a dark room, and it will appear orange. Shine the same light into a brighter context, and it will be brown.
It's exactly the same thing as e.g. dark blue or light blue. Both share the exact same wavelength, and their brightness becomes apparent in context.
If you've ever been to a cinema and you saw anything brown or orange on screen, you have seen the effect. If you have ever seen a dim conventional light bulb in a bright room, you have seen it too.
Brown has just as much a wave length as orange, because it's the same color.
Yup technically orange
Also magenta. Actually, white and black too.
Infinity does not require to be all encompassing.
The set of natural numbers is infinite, yet it contains no negative numbers.
The set of whole numbers is infinite, yet it contains no fractional numbers, except arbitrary fractions like four halves.
The set of fractional numbers is infinite, yet it does not contain most real numbers...
So? It says human imagination is indefinite.
Well, have you tried definiting it, huh?
Indefinite?
indefinite /ĭn-dĕf′ə-nĭt/ adjective
- Not definite, especially.
- Unclear; vague.
- Lacking precise limits. "an indefinite leave of absence."
I have a vague notion of a new color. Success!
I'm thinking take an artist with exquisite color sense, and dose them (consentually) with mushrooms/ acid; that should do the trick.
Pick any two adjacent known colors. Find the wavelength midpoint between these colors. Determine if this is a known color. Repeat until you've found an unclassified color.
This isn't an imagination problem, its a math problem.
Colors aren't sharp combinations of wavelengths though.
Everything is a math problem. It just needs to be written in the proper form.
They are not talking about the mathematical definition of color, but how the color is represented in the mental image you have in your head. Think about how a blue wavelength becomes a blue "pixel" in your head. It is possible to imagine other colors? If we could see ultraviolet, what color would it be? Is my blue the same as your blue or what my brain interprets as blue is different from what your brain does?
how the color is represented in the mental image you have in your head.
That's not a color, its an abstraction of a memory
It depends on the definition of "color". For us humans, in our everyday life, the abstraction we have in our mind is more meaningful than the wavelength, which is what formally defines a color, but not how we cognitively perceive it
Yeah, pretty much all arguments about colour can be solved if you realise each side is using a different definition of the word "colour" out of the four or five common ones. It's frustrating.
Same with holes - people always bring out topology as if it wasn't a super specialised piece of abstract math with barely any relation to anything physical.
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Epic Its like a purple, blue, pink, but more vibrant with sparkles. Similar to what is used for epic level items in games, hence the name.
For this to be a color, it needs to be even at all points, so no sparkles!
No, no, they have a point - if they can imagine something that's perfectly uniform and sparkly, then that'd actually be something novel
Fair enough!
octarine
new
But yah, my favourite one as well
But we did recently invent a new color, or at least a new way to perceive color.
Trying to think of a new colour after turning off my mental safeguards felt like I was a computer dividing by zero. Honestly, would not recommend.
This one’s for me! I saw a new color the second time I broke through on DMT! I can still see it in my imagination. I’ve broken through since and haven’t seen it again.
Trying to imagine objects in higher than 3 spatial dimensions.
Imagining 2 or more temporal dimensions.
Designing a system of governance that is fair to all constituents, physically realizable, and marketable enough to convince future constituents to follow it.
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Red but a bit greener
We would have also accepted a bluer yellow.
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