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Purple exists only in our brains...The color is our brain’s solution to a puzzling problem
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| January 28, 2025
| Tammy Awtry
Posted on 02/03/2025 6:36:50 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:40:40 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: Red Badger
Grass is NOT green. it just looks that way because of the color.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:41:20 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(FBI Agent "I spied, lied and stole for the Bureau but by gawd I never lost my integrity".)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:41:50 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(FBI Agent "I spied, lied and stole for the Bureau but by gawd I never lost my integrity".)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:46:34 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
To: Red Badger
So the Roman Emperors wore nothing like in that fairy tale.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:46:56 PM PST
by
HYPOCRACY
(Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: BipolarBob
When science meets reality science tends to lose.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:48:09 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: Red Badger
Looks purple to me but what do I know as I’m just a hillbilly from Central Texas.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:49:30 PM PST
by
LastDayz
(A Blunt & Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated)
To: Red Badger
This article seems to me rather naive. All colors are creations of the mind, responding to physical phenomena yes, but still mental phenomena. This issue was exhaustively examined by philosophers over the years, and this is what they concluded.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:50:37 PM PST
by
maro
(MAGA!)
To: Red Badger
“The VisibleLight Spectrum” looks nothing like the paint chips at the paint section of a store.
Our brain just makes it up to go along with the imagination of women and what color they want?
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:51:31 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Red Badger
PhD stands for Piled Higher and Deeper.
What a mountainous pile of steaming bovine excrement. 🙄
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:51:43 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
“Nonsense”
Absolutely NOT nonsense.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:53:22 PM PST
by
TexasGator
(11'r/11111.111''!11)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
This is ridiculous and worse, is the claim that NO LONG and SHORT WAVE LENGTH MAKES A COLOR!
Red and blue make PURPLE and one color ( red ) is much longer than the other ( blue); so that statement is 100% false.
OTOH...beets are NOT any shade of purple; they're a shade of RED! Yet there they are in the photo. And those grapes are mostly deep shades of red!
I paint ( I'm a watercolorist and also know about pigments ), so I'm very atuned to colors, shades, and variations of colors. Violet is a shade of PURPLE ( there are many different shades of all colors! ) so....IF violet IS a "color", then so is purple and it has nothing at all to do with our brains mixing colors to make a different one.
To: Red Badger
Tell that to my friend Roy G. Biv.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:55:32 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Red Badger
Indeed, violet and purple are not the same color. 
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:55:56 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: Red Badger
To: TexasGator
It absolutely IS
nonsense!
The article is hogwash and even cointradicts itself.
To: maro
“This article seems to me rather naive.”
Actually not. It explains how we perceived the visible spectrum.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:56:22 PM PST
by
TexasGator
(11'r/11111.111''!11)
To: nopardons
As long as there’s not fifty shades of purple.... I’m good.
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:57:57 PM PST
by
LastDayz
(A Blunt & Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated)
To: clee1
“PhD stands for Piled Higher and Deeper.”
Why do science articles here always draw stupid comments?
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posted on
02/03/2025 6:57:58 PM PST
by
TexasGator
(11'r/11111.111''!11)
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