The pandemic highlights an issue that has been haunting me all my life: most people live in a socially shared consensus reality, while I am locked into an independent construct. Accounting for the consensus seems more important than for the available evidence. How strange.
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Replying to @z7k3m
It’s not even a proverb. Seeing is a process that generates illusions from patterns. To make sense of the world, we may have to figure out how seeing works.
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Do you think this will happen in our lifetime? Will we for example be able to perceive new colours?
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Replying to @emergentmind @z7k3m
I am pretty sure we can build a machine that lets you see new colors
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We have technology - LSD
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True. But what about a machine that gives you an additional type of color receptor, turning everyone into a tetrachromat?
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Yeah that would be awesome, and in more controlled manner. LSD can be so random and I think it only introduces noise at signal processing stage.
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I have heard that the effects of LSD on shifting color perception on RGB screens are reliable.
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Btw I would try it by using glasses that translate colors into fast monochromatic blinking
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