I am kinda curious though, are their cases of people whose entire specrum is
shifted by a lot, not a little? For instance, seeing orange, when the frequency
looks red to everyone else? Also, are their cases of people being able to see a
little further into the spectrum, like a little bit of IR or UV? Or are such
adaptations simply out of the range of the tools we have to receive them (in
the eye I mean )?
Sodom
Bill Roh
Wade T.Smith wrote:
> >Color is also in the brain (where else dammit?), but one can still learn
> >more about it from a study of photons and wavelength than one can by using
> >fMRIs.
>
> Really? And what can we learn about the color _in the brain_ from a study
> of photons and wavelength?
>
> Dammit....
>
> Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging allows the study of the working
> brain.
>
> Color is of course an element of that reality that put us all here. Our
> perception of it is of course in the brain. But you must grant that what
> is color out there is not the perception of it. That truth is
> self-evident.
>
> And while a study of photons and wavelength provides us with some
> knowledge about how the eye itself works, only fMRI and its cousin
> techniques provide us with studies of the working brain.
>
> Is not the study of perception a core pursuit? From somewhere inside my
> slumber I think it is....
>
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