Changing our make believe.
Color perception is a learned behavior: that is, the way we see and experience the world is mostly make-believe. This means we can change our make-believe toward one which we prefer. But only as we become able to know/understand our current make-believe. H/T Joe Turner
The middle squares are the same color
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One thing being aware of the nature of perception, another thing being able to change it. Perception being one of those things you do without really thinking about it. No matter how many times I see that image, I cannot make my brain not see two different colours.
Joe,
Do you mean you think you can never be able to see that they are the same color, or do you mean you haven't been able to so far?
This is where I was supposed to type that stuff about language and colour.
It's interesting to speak with people from different languages. In Thai, they have one word for light blue ("sky"), and another for dark blue. And to someone who has not grown up in Thailand it is difficult to figure out where sky blue becomes dark blue. People from Bangladesh don't have the colour "orange" - they refer to it with the same word as "yellow," ie dark yellow and light yellow. And for them it is just as difficult to figure out what we think is orange vs. yellow, as it is for us to figure out where Thai people but the sky/dark blue divide.
Apparently I will only ever be able to see those as different colours. One of those things that can't be untrained.
And I think we're talking about more than the naming of particular colours.. we're talking about seeing things which aren't actually there.
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