[ExI] Red

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2026, 6:37 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Do you think there's a different 'quality' for each of the thousands of
> different reds that we can see, or just one kind of 'essence of red'
> quality that applies to them all?
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A further musing on this:

Do some of the people who do not know the words for subshades of red not
experience them, and lack the ability to perceive them as different?

There are historical studies of ancient societies that appear to have not
distinguished colors, at least in name, nearly as finely as we do today.
See
https://vera-schnepp.medium.com/why-blue-is-the-last-color-named-by-ancient-cultures-a76737af9ffc
for example.

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