[ExI] Red

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 6:54 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Orange is also a bit of a puzzle. Is that a colour in itself, a variety
> of red, or a variety of yellow?*


*Depending on the precise wavelength either English word could be used to
describe the subjective color sensation. And brown is just dim orange.  *


> *> I think that if you put a strawberry under a yellow lamp, without any
> red light shining on it, it would look yellow,*


*Yes, and if the strawberry was being illuminated by a bright blue light
then it would look jet black.  A physicist would say there's no such thing
as black light, but a philosopher would say there most certainly is such a
thing as a black qualia, and both would be 100% correct. *

*John K Clark*
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