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1 posted on 05/23/2015 6:28:43 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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the brain interprets the wave spectrum which, yes, really exists.


2 posted on 05/23/2015 6:29:37 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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For that matter sound wouldn’t exist either. Neither would any of the senses. Sensations like color, tones and smell are known as sensory qualia. They are similar to atoms of consciousness. In a way, our conscious experience is a virtual reality based on our senses.


4 posted on 05/23/2015 6:35:30 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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EVERYTHING we experience is a “conscript of the mind”. Perception really IS reality. Creation is not just mostly empty space. It really DOES have more in common with “the Matrix” than what people perceive to be the real world.

Physical objects are basically “coagulated energy”. And if God says, “Meh, this bores me.”, it will simply revert to the energy which it is. It will “burn up”.


5 posted on 05/23/2015 6:37:31 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Interesting. I can’t see any difference in the green squares, even after I know which one is supposed to be different.


9 posted on 05/23/2015 6:48:39 AM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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Some folks want to gain notoriety by making claims contrary to accepted norms.

It is the motivation behind “Diversity”.

>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<

...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family.

Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.

Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.

Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.

Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.


10 posted on 05/23/2015 6:52:51 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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There are people with normal eyes that don’t see color the same way others do.

We are trained to identify colors in school now that hide this. Games such as what color is this?

There are actually people who see blue as red, but many of them aren’t aware of it.

The spectrum isn’t the problem, the problem is what does the brain tag that spectrum with.


11 posted on 05/23/2015 6:55:22 AM PDT by dila813
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Stupid article about a trivial observation.


12 posted on 05/23/2015 6:56:34 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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Does colour only exist in our brain?

Only in Britain and Commonwealth countries. Elsewhere, color only exists in our brains.

You may think it's all about you, but there is no u in color...

13 posted on 05/23/2015 6:57:16 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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The whole argument is silly. I have to guess without reading the article that this was done with a Federal Grant-praise be to Washington. Sound is only vibrations in the air until the brain interprets those vibrations. Color is wave frequency as interpreted by the brain. The author is trying to scientize the old conundrum about a tree falling in the forest. It is definition and nothing more. If color is defined as wavelength of light then color is inherent in nature. If color is defined as the brain's interpretation of the wavelength of received light then color is a construct of the brain.
15 posted on 05/23/2015 7:03:52 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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Artists work from the position of light and most are well-aware of the notion that light creates color and objects have no inherent color of their own.


18 posted on 05/23/2015 7:11:08 AM PDT by yetidog
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So how do I know if I’m really taking the red pill?


22 posted on 05/23/2015 7:12:26 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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If you live in the world of science, this is true. And the atoms that constitute matter are mostly the space between elections, etc. Then in that world, humans are stimulus-response machines, natural law and morality are useless and relative, and God is dead. And the result is that people actually listen to protesters screaming about nothing but their raw emotion and drivel.

However, in the True world of the Soul, the sky is blue, the Trinity is real, and humans are in God’s image who live under God’s law.


28 posted on 05/23/2015 7:27:13 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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Hmmm...wondering about colorblindness


29 posted on 05/23/2015 7:29:40 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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Reminds me of the CALVIN AND HOBBES cartoon in which Calvin’s dad explains to him how everything before 1950s was all black and white and then everything took on color.

Poor little confused kid! Hey, it even confused me for a while!


33 posted on 05/23/2015 8:08:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (.)
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The color blue or at least a word for the color blue does not exist in ancient texts. Other colors are mentioned, but not blue.

If the color blue did not exist then, how can it exist now?


38 posted on 05/23/2015 8:24:03 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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If color is, by definition, a visual phenomenon and it is only in the perceiving that that phenomenon is observable, then the perception of color CREATES the color, which would otherwise simply be an electromagnetic phenomenon.

This is basically the “tree falls in a forest” question with a visual rather than an aural component.


40 posted on 05/23/2015 8:41:59 AM PDT by IronJack
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... it is simply a construct of the mind

Yeah, like gender. /s

41 posted on 05/23/2015 8:47:25 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The "legacy of slavery" is not an excuse for inexcusable behavior. --Thomas Sowell)
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Are you gonna believe this guy or your own lying eyes?


43 posted on 05/23/2015 9:05:53 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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It suggests that colour doesn't exist - at least not in the literal sense Instead it exists in our minds, or in the way that people interpret light

Color is not in our minds in any sense.From the standpoint of the subject, color is not in or a feature of his perceptual awareness. The physical facts show that color is a relational property of objects, arising from an interaction between them and our visual systems.

Also,colors are not separate objects of awareness, or qualities in inner objects, but aspects of the way external objects appear to us in respect of their reflectance properties.They are thus aspects of the means by which we are directly aware of those properties.

Finally, these reflectance properties could be perceived in different forms,if our perceptual apparatus were different.

46 posted on 05/23/2015 9:28:16 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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Just like gender...


51 posted on 05/23/2015 10:58:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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