<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 6, 2026, 6:37 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A further musing on this:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 <a href="https://vera-schnepp.medium.com/why-blue-is-the-last-color-named-by-ancient-cultures-a76737af9ffc">https://vera-schnepp.medium.com/why-blue-is-the-last-color-named-by-ancient-cultures-a76737af9ffc</a> for example.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote></div></div></div>