Seeing red

[The Grand Nudger]

There is no difference, computationally, between numbers and colors.  You prefer color, you make disparaging remarks about 1's and 0's, but understand that this is only your bias speaking.  The terminator would scoff at our ridiculous "colors", instead preferring it's beautiful, rich, and incredibly specific binary data set. In any case, when a bitmap is fed to a moniter it produces an image identical to our experience of them. We're not -so- different in effect, even if we are different in method. What is on the moniter is what your "humunculous" would see. Seems to me that the bitmap is a wonderful rough analogue for our form of visual perception.

There is no reason to think that patterns which can be -and are- handled with binary everytime you take a picture would be lost if they were not encoded "in color" as we experience them.  Most cameras, already operating on a binary format at their most fundamental level, are already capable of both detecting and retaining patterns better than the human eye, better than the human mind.  Your contention -must be- false because there already -are- forms of perception different from our own. You don't need eyes to see color, and frankly, our eyes aren't the best way to determine color in the first place. Try a spectrometer? Our eyes exist as they do not because that is the only way to represent the data field, or even the best way, simply that it was -a- manner in which it could be achieved, given the material available to the system. That there are so many different types of eyes, and sensory structures in general are found represented in life (and so many analogs n digital) should tell you that there are myriad ways to skin a cat.

Good enough, not best, not only.