Re: Imaginary colors Speculation

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PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 11/7/2009 11:46:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, dd-b@xxxxxxxx writes:Your first two sentences may be tautologically true (if you're asserting
that "color" is a human construct), but it's also useless.
Now I titled my email "Imaginary colors Speculation" What I am saying is that there is no colors that we don't see (as a group). That there is no new color you can get by other means. When bats view sound waves if they see this as color it is of our spectrum but I suspect there brain senses sound waves as some sort of pattern.
There is no point in searching for other colors.


At least short of brain modification, surgically or through genetic engineering.

Not that I'm volunteering to be a test subject!!!!


There was an interesting bit in a very fine SF novel not mostly about sight (this was just a side detail), where it became relevant dealing with an alien species that they used different pigments in their visual receptors than we did. Hence blended colors, which is to say nearly all reproduced images and even original paintings, looked different to them than they did to us. Their artists were talking about trying to figure out how to paint for a human audience.

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