Ed Earl Ross wrote:
Atheistagnostic wrote:
Ed Earl Ross wrote:
Michael Voytinsky wrote:
Craig Franck wrote:
Tomorrow, all life on earth is obliterated by an asteroid impact. Do
the colors we perceived still exist the day after tomorrow?
I say no, because they were an artifact of our nervous systems,
and we are all dead.
So, by your definition of "colour", there will be no colour.
By some other definitions of "colour", there will be colour.
It seems that you are making a statement about language and not about
physics or metaphysics. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to confuse
statements about language with statements about the world.
If it were only about language, how could we translate any color
from one language to another?
Translation is possible because it is the MEANING of a term that
matters, right? Blue in English means the same as blau in German.
Light comes in different wavelengths of the elecromagnetic spectrum.
Look at the visible light segment. See the different colors, depending on
frequency? It is the wavelength that determines the color. --
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/spectru.htm
At a trivial level of understanding, it appears that way. However, if
one carefully examines the eyes and visual cortex, one discovers that
seeing color is a complex mind-body experience.
Except that you haven't actually demonstrated any mind-body duality, you
have just tried to get away with taking it for granted (begging the
question). That isn't allowed, sir.
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