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Isn't that a little like saying that a shiny red sports car is actually metallic gray, but it has a coating that alters our perception of it so that it appears
by dTal 6y ago
Isn't that a little like saying that a shiny red sports car is actually metallic gray, but it has a coating that alters our perception of it so that it appears red to our eyes?
Color is what we perceive, nothing else. If it looks blue, it is blue.
- Avamander 6y agoWell, if you look the world through blue-tinted windows it doesn't make the world suddenly bluer though. I think the same kind-of applies here.
- TwelveNights 6y agoI think in this case the wax lining on the pines would be moreso a property of the object rather than the apparatus through which we see the object.
- yndoendo 6y agoIs not the category of it Photosynthesis? Internally the environment of Blue spruce is the evolutionary standard of Green, not Blue. The blue perception would also reflect a Blue perception of photosynthesis standard.
- bregma 6y agoIt's more like saying that the steel your shiny red sports car is made of is actually metallic grey even though it has a veneer of red enamel on it.