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Originally Posted by thedoc
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
That's all well and good, but doesn't it seem strange that when light strikes an object, we will not get a true color of the object because the light isn't capable of providing it?
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Not strange at all, this is the way the real world works, but most people just don't notice. The other factor is that the brain will fill in some of the details of an object that you have seen before. |
And this is your answer? And you don't think this is any less fundie than what the flat earthers come up with?
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So if you look at a shirt that you have had for some time and the light is not full spectrum, the shirt may not actually be reflecting it's true color, but your brain will correct the image so that you will see the shirt as you expect to see it. Then with familiar objects you may never notice that the color is not what you expect it to be.
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This is not normal. I know the brain fills in certain things, but to use this to correct the mistake that light caused from the very beginning is nuts.
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An extreme example of people seeing what they expect to see are highway signs. In Pa. the Yield sign was changed from 'Yellow and Black' to 'Red and White' in 1965. Most people still say the sign as 'Yellow and Black' for many years after the last ones had been replaced through attrition. As late as 1980 people would state positively that the signs were 'Yellow and Black' when thay had all been replaced by that time. People were seeing what they expected to see, even when they passed the sign and loked straight at it every day. all conditioning and observation takes place inside the brain, and not outside.
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That's true, but this has nothing to do with the fact that we can't be correcting thousands of mistakes because the pattern of light was inadequate from day one. Don't you see the problem, or you that blind. Sounds like fundamentalism to me.
