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Color perception arbitrary?
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RE: Color perception arbitrary?
July 25, 2013 at 6:53 pm (This post was last modified: July 25, 2013 at 7:02 pm by Napoléon.)
(July 25, 2013 at 6:16 pm)Chuck Wrote: still the names are just names and are arbitrary.

The names are arbitrary but the colours themselves aren't. Why is white, white? I'm not talking about labels, I'm talking specifically about the colour. Alternatively why do we have only 3 colour receptors as you say? Why not 4? Would we perceive new colours if that were so? Are there more colours to what we can see now? For that matter can you imagine a new colour? How come we only perceive the colours in our imagination that we can see with our eyes?

Mind fuck.
Also, I got a 4 on that test. Oh yeahhhh.
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Color perception arbitrary? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - July 25, 2013 at 12:25 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - July 25, 2013 at 12:45 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by festive1 - July 25, 2013 at 12:56 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by frankiej - July 25, 2013 at 1:46 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Faith No More - July 25, 2013 at 4:16 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by pocaracas - July 25, 2013 at 4:19 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by NoraBrimstone - July 25, 2013 at 4:33 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Rahul - July 25, 2013 at 1:30 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Chas - July 25, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Re: Color perception arbitrary? - by NoraBrimstone - July 25, 2013 at 3:54 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Rahul - July 25, 2013 at 4:15 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - July 25, 2013 at 4:20 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by FifthElement - July 26, 2013 at 12:34 am
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Faith No More - July 25, 2013 at 4:38 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by FlyingNarwhal - July 25, 2013 at 5:12 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Anomalocaris - July 25, 2013 at 6:16 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Napoléon - July 25, 2013 at 6:53 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Anomalocaris - July 25, 2013 at 7:03 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Rayaan - July 25, 2013 at 7:29 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Annik - July 25, 2013 at 8:51 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Rahul - July 25, 2013 at 11:17 pm
RE: Color perception arbitrary? - by Angrboda - July 25, 2013 at 11:15 pm

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