(October 7, 2013 at 1:25 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(October 4, 2013 at 2:45 am)bennyboy Wrote: @Lemonvariable72
I don't think you got the point. The point is that we may have evolved with a SYSTEMIC inability to perceive or comprehend certain kinds of information. Appealing to other humans for confirmation isn't going to do anything.
For example, it may be that there are magical fairies all around us. However, they have no bearing on our survival, so we have not evolved any mechanism for perceiving them. If worms could communicate, they would uniformly confirm to each other that rainbows do not exist, since they have no way to infer the existence of light.
However if worms were sapient then they could infer (eventually) the existence of rainbows because they would likely discover light in much the same way we did with radio waves or infrared. However what you state is interesting. What if there is a color that we cannot perceive?
Unless you can see infra-red and ultra-violet there are colours we cannot perceive. Interestingly - other creatures can. Goldfish have much better colour perception that we do.
