...blue. What we perceive as color is the result of how...of the spectrum. For other colors, the different receptors will respond...different receptors as a single color. Because of this, there are...someone who had four different color receptors would be able to...easy to imagine an aliencolorvision system that has both...are even people with four color receptors that see two different...
... appreciate a broad range of colors, perhaps as broad as our ... of the spectrum. For other colors, the different receptors will respond,... different receptors as a single color. Because of this, there are ... is to consider people with color blindness: one of the receptors ...someone who had four different color receptors would be able to...easy to imagine an aliencolorvision system that has both...
... is true that the experience of color is subjective. However, while I don...way I do, some things about colorvision are quantifiable. A being that can't see colors has only one type of ... the sensitivities of receptors overlap, vision with four cone types might ... only slightly different from normal vision, or it might add an ... into our existing perception of color, infrared would be a reddish ...
... with an array of individual pixels whose color etc changes in digital increments, so the... sound wave itself is analog. Back to color: it is true that any human can match a narrowband yellow color (containing only yellow light, no red and ...you see the difference?" Subtle differences in colorvision are actually the norm: "normal" colorvision is the mirage that doesn't really exist. ...
..._so_ important" it cares about "true" and "provable". (Mathematicians also care about "elegant".) This feeds the idea that anything in the world is a set. I'm not. There may be other (alien) societies where e.g. hard work/honest labour is the predominant feature. In such a society, mathematics very likely would be founded upon the notions of: function and time. "Time" is not a...
... The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language Of course "generally regarded" is a moving target. (even if the regarding is being done by aliens). A rapidly moving target, in some ways, and hardly unidirectional in inclusiveness or exclusiveness. -- Nate Edel http://www.cubiclehermit.com/ preferred email | "With all the accumulated ...
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:00:54 +0100, Charles <jrh@msn.com> wrote: Define "perversion". "any of various means of obtaining sexual gratification that are generally regarded as being abnormal." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language Of course "generally regarded" is a moving target. (even if the regarding is being done by aliens).
...$47204599$82a1e228$4342@news1.tudelft.nl>, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@DTO.TUDelft.NL> wrote: Aliens would be flabbergasted: "amateurs" and "professionals", involved with a perversion of what would be ... "living" and "loving" in a less commercialized, more humanized society. And what would *aliens* know from a "more *humanized* society"? Furrfu. Seth -- Of course, common logic ...
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:28:24 +0200, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@DTO.TUDelft.NL> wrote: Aliens would be flabbergasted: "amateurs" and "professionals", involved with a perversion of what would be called just "living" and "loving" in a less commercialized, more humanized society. That's silly. Are you flabbergasted about weird sexual habits of animals? There are "amateurs" and "...
