RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 29, 2018 at 7:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2018 at 8:00 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 28, 2018 at 7:03 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Meh, colors are a phenomenon of consciousness. They are a construct. Suggesting that a color cannot be detected because there is not a construct available to consciousness is simply conflating multiple meanings of the word color. Color is a side effect of light being perceived and processed by a brain. So whether one can name a specific color or a new primary color is irrelevant because measuring the properties of light does not require the participation of biology and consciousness at that level. That we can detect infrared light makes it clear that we can detect things that there is no conscious construct for. The devices we use to detect such properties of light are themselves based upon things that we can observe and lead us to deduce the existence of infrared light. I don't know what the original point was, but this nonsense about a new primary color seems nothing more than a red herring. No, there is no construct in consciousness which corresponds to a new primary color or infrared light. That doesn't mean we can't detect "color" (strictly speaking, we can't, because it's a feature of consciousness; I rather doubt that fact is relevant to whatever the original point was).
The mind can certainly create conscious construct for things that came to the mind entirely through a non-biological sensory instrumentality. Such constructs can be a world seen with a different set of primary colors, or the forced pleasure of sucking Jesus cock forever after one has turned utterly to dust. We certainly can imagine a forth color, such as UV or IR, and that is made easier and given guidance rooted in reality from imagine technology, even envision how they would change our visual milieu. The difference is it takes a different and more productively curious, and more critically skeptical of the unmeasurable, outlook to focus on envisioning a world seen through a different combination of colors demonstrated to exist as light carrying information, than to envision the pleasures of sucking Jesus cock after an end that one is too infantile to accept.