> What I've emphasized is obviously not the "real news" of the article.
> Might be of interest to the "Sir Frederick" sub-tradition of this
> group.
>
> Color Contrast Is 'Seen' By The Brain Early Doorshttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/du-cci090707.php
>
> #EXCERPT# Dr Robert Kentridge, lead researcher and lecturer in Durham
> University's Psychology Department explains: "Colour is a product of
> our nervous system--it is a 'pigment' of our imagination. The colours
> that we see are more related to the materials that things are made of
> than the light reflected from them into our eyes. Making this happen
> involves many complex processes. One of the earliest involves seeing
> contrast between pairs of colours. We have found that this important
> step of seeing colour contrast happens much earlier in the brain than
> we had realised up to now.
>
> "..... Professor Charles Heywood, who leads Durham's Psychology
> Department, added: "People can distinguish between colours partly
> because of the contrast with its background. If someone has lost that ...

> On Sep 7, 12:13 pm, D H budweiser.com> wrote:

>> What I've emphasized is obviously not the "real news" of the article.
>> Might be of interest to the "Sir Frederick" sub-tradition of this
>> group.
>>
>> Color Contrast Is 'Seen' By The Brain Early Doorshttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/du-cci090707.php
>>
>> #EXCERPT# Dr Robert Kentridge, lead researcher and lecturer in Durham
>> University's Psychology Department explains: "Colour is a product of
>> our nervous system--it is a 'pigment' of our imagination. The colours
>> that we see are more related to the materials that things are made of
>> than the light reflected from them into our eyes. Making this happen
>> involves many complex processes. One of the earliest involves seeing
>> contrast between pairs of colours. We have found that this important
>> step of seeing colour contrast happens much earlier in the brain than
>> we had realised up to now.
>>
>> "..... Professor Charles Heywood, who leads Durham's Psychology
>> Department, added: "People can distinguish between colours partly ...

>>http://www.friesian.com/hume.htm
>>http://www.wutsamada.com/alma/modern/humepid.htm

>
> Without any detailed information concerning microbiological and
> microphysical levels, the fruits of causal interactions would more
> often have seemed like reliable miracles or inexplicable emergences
> back in Hume's time. But even today a scientific description doesn't
> capture the effectual power of the original circumstances that it can
> help us manipulate (the "will" that Schopenhauer later referred to?).
> A description of a radio signal does not leap-up and oscillate several
> thousands or millions of times a second like EM waves. Which is why I
> have little idea what kind of "stuff" some linguistic / analytical
> philosophers are sniffing or injecting, when at least a few of them
> seem...