Colors
added by Ben Percifield · updated 2y ago
Colors
not all languages have the same color terms. If you give speakers of different languages a color spectrum and ask them to label when one color becomes another, they will give different answers
from This is how your language affects your thoughts by Monica A. Winkler
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- An intuitive idea of Monism can be the idea of colors: Our brain perceives electromagnetic radiation as colors. Low-frequency radiation tends to be red, and higher-frequency radiation tends to be blue/purple. But all the colors are an aspect of electromagnetic radiation, they are not something entirely distinct. Color is an emergent aspect of elect... See more
from Basic Introduction to Nondualism by Roy Klein
When we knew every face intimately, there was no need to generalize into “people.” Our ancestors experienced a richness of intimacy that we can hardly imagine today, living as we do among strangers. It is not only social richness that is muffled underneath our words, it is the entirety of sensual experience. Margaret Mead once observed, “For those
... See morefrom The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Charles Eisenstein