Comment on shrimp colour drama
Geodad@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Technically, all the colors are fake. They’re just the halucinations of a brain trying to understand the input from sensory organs.
sfu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
[deleted]Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pink isn’t real. There is no wavelength of light that is pink.
bilb@lem.monster 2 months ago
Its bright red, maybe toward purple! Brown is dark orange.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Light frequencies between blue and red don’t exist.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This person colors
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Clearly, it’s light-ish red.
sfu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
[deleted]Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For pink light to be perceived, it needs red cones to fully react, and both green and blue cones to only partially activate.
huf@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
the brain’s actually trying to understand what things are made of, and it’s guessing at that based on the light that enteres the eye.
this is why when you pick up a thing outside and take it inside, it doesnt change color (edge cases exist), even though the light that reflects off of it into your eye absolutely changes a lot.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
That doesn’t make them fake, in the same way that x can mean 2. You are merely representing a given value in a useful way.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But is my red the same as your red? Hmmm?
Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was a joke?
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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
Geodad@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I hadn’t thought about it that way.