(October 7, 2013 at 1:25 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: 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?It may be that sentient worms would discover light, and build technologies to extend their understanding of it, as we have. But it may also be that since they really don't have any sense of light, they could never discover it-- it might just never occur to them to inquire in that direction.
People have argued against "You don't know what you don't know." They say, "I don't know Madonna's phone number" or whatever. But they're missing the point-- there may be crucially important data in the universe which for some system reason we cannot perceive, or even conceive of. Personally, I'd argue this is a near-certainty.
