I like to point out that we are blind to the extraordinarily common "colors" of nitrogen gas and water vapor, blindness which is beneficial, because otherwise w

I like to point out that we are blind to the extraordinarily common "colors" of nitrogen gas and water vapor, blindness which is beneficial, because otherwise we'd constantly stumble through fog until we go over the edge of a cliff or get eaten by a tiger. Yet if some aliens insisted that our planet was a very boring featureless nitrogen-colored ball, we would probably object that their viewing strategy is naive and incorrect. We are born seeing the universe based on pragmatic decisions about signal versus noise. Our evolved tuning utterly fails in new places, so we should pick new tunings.