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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

!lemmysilver

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So are any animals actually capable of seeing the invisible spectrums of light? Because humans technically can see them, since we make tools that allow us to. Suck on that, other animals. ๐Ÿ˜ค

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Like infrared and ultraviolet? Yeah, there are animals that see those.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And all the other stuff we yse to see celestial objects and communicate long distance. Our phones are able to see colours we can't!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

I've been thinking about how a species with a metal horn could evolve to use it as a radio and even a hive mind.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Really wish talking about what shrimp see didn't remind me that in farming them females have one eye removed to promote breeding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

I am eternally gratefull the practice is forbidden in Europe in organic cultivation. It's one of the small wins that fly under the radar. It's still a long way to people choosing for organic, awareness is the start of every change.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I don't think of it as drama so much as docucomedy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine how OP their colour perception would be if they did have that mental processing power

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Oh that explains this scene

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I hate that it invalidates this episode of radiolab, which is, without a doubt, a masterpiece of podcasting:

https://youtu.be/jibvu9BHV_k?t=795

i saved the video at the 13 minute mark where they do the audio representation of the vivid colors. still worth a watch/listen

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Technically, all the colors are fake. They're just the halucinations of a brain trying to understand the input from sensory organs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No, colors are real. And you see them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Pink isn't real. There is no wavelength of light that is pink.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Its bright red, maybe toward purple! Brown is dark orange.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Light frequencies between blue and red don't exist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

That doesn't make them fake, in the same way that x can mean 2. You are merely representing a given value (in this case light within a certain electromagnetic spectrum) in a useful way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But is my red the same as your red? Hmmm?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

if two people can both point to red and agree that it's red, that's close enough. anything beyond that is just pointless esoteric debate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Some people see numbers instead/along with colors, and different people see different numbers, so I guess the colors might be different between people too

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree that it's pointless. I think it may be beneficial to humanity (eventually) to establish whether or not there is an objective reality which we all experience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

i agree, but that's a job for neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and psychology; not a pack of dorks on the fediverse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

it's more in the philosophy ballpark, which shapes the interpretration of methodology and the consequences, in my humble opinion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But what if the dorks on the fediverse are scientists?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

then by all means

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But I want to contribute to humanity in a meaningful way!

-me, a dork on the Fediverse nearly incapable of contributing to humanity in a meaninful way

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Working on it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I hadn't thought about it that way.

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