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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Color for other physiologies

If we imagine a different spread like for bees which see UV but not red.
If we imagine an extra set like for pit vipers or octopus 4primaries to match receptors or directional color for polarization.

We must remember that color and our visual field is a psychological construct based on our physiology and evolutionary adaptations in the way our vision was used by our ancient ancestors.

We must also not make the mistake of simply applying additions to our own gestalt constructions and ascribing these to other (alien) minds. There may be some basic overlap in the availability of sensations from certain physical phenomena but there is a variety of qualia available to construct a seamless enough representation to imagine worlds that do not overlap aesthetically from the same set of stimulus.

There may be certain necessary ideas in the development of intelligence that require structural overlap. While at the same time the stimulus conditions exclude agreement in what we might call "harmonious".
Reference to the intense olfactory experiences of most mammals And the auditory experience of bats may be of use here. Without a better understanding of how the cortices map sense data into a representation we can only speculate about the muliarray of colors beyond 3

A quick reference to the difference between place (location) and direction (polarization). Does our own experience have an analog for this? Perhaps in the directionality of hearing, we find it. This would suggest that polarization would be more akin to our atmospheric blue shift but colorless.

The conjecture of this entire article is only to begin the speculation. We may not be able to answer this until we communicate with a being that has different sensory apparatus; even then without the language and mental constructs in place we may not comprehend their view.

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