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It's also worth reflecting on your model of reality and color. RF wavelengths vary along a single dimension, the wavelength. But we perceive red, green and bl
by state_less 9y ago
It's also worth reflecting on your model of reality and color. RF wavelengths vary along a single dimension, the wavelength.
But we perceive red, green and blue. Sometimes we don't perceive the wavelength if it's outside our visual range, it never is mapped into the model, unless we lift it into visual range with sensors (IR) or dig into it through the analytical mind.
- taneq 9y agoIt's actually quite scary if you think too much about it - what we 'see' and 'hear' and 'feel' as our nice neat comprehensible rectilinear 3D world with directional audio and consistent textures and shapes etc. is nothing like what's "really" there, there's just a 2-way mapping between our model and "reality". All that's really there is an invisible hot soupy sea of quarks fizzing around at ludicrous speed.
- psyc 9y agoThere is a certain sense in which one has never actually interacted with anything other than one's own brain. It's not the only sense of things, but it's one.