...to them, the way now it does with a mix of red and green, well, all you'd get is that you still see yellow as yellow, though possibly you would have a better, finer resolution on the color spectrum thanks to less interpolation going on.
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Replying to @SturnioloSimone @Feiryred and
Conversely, I do not know if your inner sensation for "yellow" is anything close to MY inner sensation for "yellow". They could be completely different. They could be incomparable. We don't know, because we can't see into each other's head.
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Replying to @SturnioloSimone @Feiryred and
The only thing we do know is that there is a quality Y of certain things existing independently from us that both you and I consistently associate with the same inner sensation, and thus can conventionally agree to call, "being yellow".
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Replying to @SturnioloSimone @Feiryred and
(well, if we want to be really specific, we don't KNOW that either for sure, but let's not get too down the rabbit hole now)
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Replying to @SturnioloSimone @Feiryred and
This thread has become an episode of "Connections" lol (I liked that show)
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Replying to @astrotter @Feiryred and
Biology => astrophysics => relativistic quantum mechanics => neuroscience => epistemology. If someone manages to bring archaeology into this, they win a cookie.
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Replying to @SturnioloSimone @astrotter and
WELL! There was no word for the colour blue until comparitively recently-the Egyptians did when they used lapis lazuli as a pigment for pottery and paint. Does that count?
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Replying to @Feiryred @astrotter and
I've even read an argument that the lack of words for blue in antiquity meant (or corresponded to?) a fundamental inability to *conceptualize* the color blue at all, leading to expressions such as Homer's "wine-colored sea". Though that seems a stretch to me.
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Replying to @SturnioloSimone @Feiryred and
That would be untrue, and as for words for blue, it is also untrue that they are recently invented. Rather, blue green, and black existed on a spectrum of words in many languages. Ancient Greeks referred to the sky as Bronze likely because of the sun.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @SturnioloSimone and
However, descriptions of pretty much every colour have been and are complicated. Purple and red in Latin were often confused, depending on the type. Several words for brown in Welsh depending on what you're referring to. It is unlikely that people didn't see blue or...
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...couldn't conceptualise it, only that colours are inherently subjective and thus their words to describe them differ from modern day.
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