RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 28, 2018 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 2:59 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 28, 2018 at 2:07 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(August 28, 2018 at 1:49 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: No it isn't, it's the exact same question I posed except instead of using "red" as an example I'm using actual unknown colors...
I asked you if everyone was blind to the color "red" how would you prove it's existence, you stated essentially 'through the use of instrumentation'.
We know that more than 4 primary colors exist, so show me a fourth primary color, shouldn't be too hard since there are devices that can do so as you just stated.
You have deliberately posed a question in a way that cannot be answered because the question itself is meaningless.
To illustrate, if I give you an answer, specifying the exact wavelength, how will you determine if it is correct or not?
Are you talking about additive or subtractive mixing?
Which specific organism are you talking about?
This is just a disingenuous way to avoid acknowledging the fact that your god cannot be measured objectively and reproducibly.
You asked how we determine reality.
I answered that we can measure it and reproduce those measurements with a device.
You are deliberately equivocating between context specific and universally objective.
do "primary" colors exist?
Quote:At bottom, the only justification for primary colors is to minimize the number of components required to mix all colors. This limitation makes biological sense if you are evolving a color sensing eye (and need to minimize the number of photoreceptor cells), mathematical sense if you want to model how that eye works (and want to do it with the fewest variables), economic sense if you are printing a color job (where each color requires a separate printing plate, ink, and pass with the printing press), or technological sense if you are manufacturing color televisions or computer monitors or color film (where each color requires a separate phosphor or dye).
But in every case the choice of primary colors is either arbitrary or imperfect. And if you are not building eyes or modeling color vision responses or running a printing press or designing a computer monitor, and can inexpensively "expand your gamut" with four colors — or six, or twelve, or twenty — on your palette, then "primary" colors are irrelevant to the task before you.
Show you a forth primary color?
You are seeing a forth primary color all the time. You can not help but be bathed in it and see it.
The problem is although you are seeing it, you are unable to distinguish it as a primary color because your eyes do not have a particular channel whose sensitivity is at its maximum at that color. Instead you have three other channels (if you are not color blind) whose maximum sensitivity is elsewhere but get by because sources of the new primary color is not so exact and smear out the color of the light, so you can perceive the near color as a mixture of the other three primary colors your eyes are sensitive to, not as a narrow color to which your eye ball has a dedicated channel. So although you see those other colors, you can not call them out from a vast range of other possible mixtures of intensities of lights of all different wave length that so happened to combine to stimulate your three channels the same way.
Instruments can treat any color as an additional primary color. So they can be made to specifically sense intensity at any arbitrary wave length. What is more is they can be made to sense those colors very precisely and narrowly, What you select as the wave length for another primary color for your instruments can actually afford remarkable vast amount of information forever denied your eyes. That’s how we can tell what minerals on on the moon. That’s how we can tell the composition of jutpiter’s atmosphere. That’s how we can tell at airports whether the molecules hanging around you have a whiff of explosives in them. But you will need an scientific, not biblical education, to ever profit from it.
So The 4th, 5th, 6th, 167th primary color is being shown to you whenever you open your eyes. You simply lack both the facility in your eyes to sense it as a specific color rather than a mixture of other colors, and the intelligence and familiarity with science to bypass that limitation of your eyes with instruments already designed and made for you.