Colors are THE classic example of a continuous spectrum people arbitrarily turn into a discrete list out of convenience
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Indeed, there's strong evidence that knowing the names for different colors literally helps us distinguish between them. Russians, for example, tend to be better at distinguishing blues because Russian views different shades of blue as different canon colors.
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The idea that color is "a continuous spectrum" confuses the electromagnetic phenomenon with the nervous phenomenon. They are two distinct meanings of "color". Indeed, the latter varies individual to individual, over all organisms sensitive to EM.
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