[ExI] Optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors

Henry Rivera hrivera at alumni.virginia.edu
Thu May 20 01:28:23 UTC 2021


Illusions aside, I’m colorblind. What I see as red is definitely not the same as what normal color-visioned people see as red. …So they tell me. 

> On May 19, 2021, at 2:37 PM, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 19:24, spike jones via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> <big snip>
>> Perhaps none of that has anything to do with the censored word, but if so, I am tempted (and flatly refuse) to introduce a new term (as you already know I generally have the ability and eagerness to do) which would express the notion that there are infinitely many combinations of sensory signals and neural networks, all different from each other, which would result in a prole seeing red.
>> 
>> Hey cool, were we to form a breakout group dedicated to discussing the censored term, that would be a great name: @proles_seeing_red.
>> 
>> spike
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> Also, in many cases, they may have the experience that they are seeing
> red, but that may not be the reality.
> As the original optical illusion demonstrates.
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> 
> BillK
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