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This is worse than when I found out the blobfish is just a normal-ass fish that usually lives under lots of water pressure and had just inflated from the lack of it.
This is now our mission. It’s the job of science to give these unfortunate creatures the ability to see all the colours. Get on it, molecular biologists.
Can someone explain to me why the mistake made about shrimp is different than the assumptions that went into speculating how other creatures perceive the world? Dogs, bees etc.
I remembered awhile ago hearing that compound eyes can see quite remarkably due to their properties, but if this is true than it’s possible that insects really do literally see multiple copies of the world out of each segment since they wouldn’t be able to average them out across a spectrum.
dafuq you mean fake colours, is white also fake then?
The are some colors that our brains make up that don’t actually exist, they’re called impossible colors, this video about it is pretty interesting imo
That doesn’t justify calling them fake. All colors are made up in our brains. At least call them composite
fake is just an easy way to communicate the idea without going into a bunch of complex color terminology. extra-spectral is a name for them if you really want to split hairs about it. which includes both impossible and imaginary (which are also described as fictitious).
I feel it’s like saying “matter is mostly empty space and objects don’t actually touch, they repel each other”. Yes, that may be true on a physics/atomic level, but on a practical, every day level, objets are “solid” and they “touch”.
Yeah, pink/brown doesn’t “exist”. There is no “pink wavelength”. It’s “a composite”. But you can still pull a pink crayon out and everyone agrees “yeah, that’s pink”.
Saying colors don’t exist is splitting hairs in a context most people aren’t referring to.
In the case of the shrimp, it does matter because are they seeing “pink” or “red while also seeing purple separately and distinctly”? It’s asking if they are processing the colors in the same format.
I’ve always wondered what it would look like to be able to see outside the visible light spectrum
Like would it change the colors we can already perceive or would it turn making popcorn into the trippiest shit imaginable, or would it be like Lex Luthor in all-star superman and we suddenly are able to invent new genetic material or some crazy shit.
Is there at least a new contender for their place?
