This started out as a comment on Thingy’s blog, but for some reason, I couldn’t get it to accept it. Apparently, I fail the robot test.
I’m sorry, Blogger, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Anyway, a guy named Robert Krulwich says that the color pink doesn’t exist. It’s an illusion in our minds. My understanding was that this was the case with all colors–they are just how our brains interpret light reflected at different wavelengths. And the scientist they quote in this Time magazine article says something similar.
When they say pink is made up color, I guess they mean that only the human eye is capable of perceiving it; that other eyes might not have blend the wavelengths the same way. Whereas, red wavelengths are still being reflected no matter what is looking at it. (That doesn’t mean they appear “red” to some non-human entity, but they are consistently seen as that wavelength.) If I’m reading this right.
Ok, I just confused myself. If anyone with actual knowledge reads this, please enlighten me. In the meantime, I’ll be re-reading Ambrose Bierce’s The Damned Thing for a crash course on why this matters.
Ugh, dang blogger.
Ooh, The Damned Thing. That was good.
I did read that too, that there are thousands of colors we cannot even see.
I also recall an article about when sight impaired persons are able to see for the first time, their perception is so different than what people who have seen all their lives, view.
Yeah, I bet that would be a strange sensation, to suddenly be able to see. It seems like it would be tough to handle all the new stuff.