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Maybe it was seeing a UFO…

Or meeting a ghost…

Or stranger things…
So you have seen things that were beyond your current understanding. I have seen my check engine light come on, but that was only the beginning of my journey.
 
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The sun emits all colors of the rainbow more or less evenly and in physics, we call this combination "white".

Yeah, I get that.

I was tipsy and was getting overly philosophical. :p
 
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Tipsy? His idea was that the Mandela effect was that thing had changed in the past but in reality the Mandela effect refers to the fallibility of human memory. LOL

No, my tipsy comment was that I was a bit tipsy the other day when I was asking all those questions about what colour is.
 
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No, my tipsy comment was that I was a bit tipsy the other day when I was asking all those questions about what colour is.
No, we were discussing how the sun appeared to others in the past and some were arguing that the sun had changed. I was arguing that it was not the sun but our perception but for now I am no longer tipsy but [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ed. :)
 
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No, we were discussing how the sun appeared to others in the past and some were arguing that the sun had changed. I was arguing that it was not the sun but our perception but for now I am no longer tipsy but [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ed. :)
I just used an idiom that is trivial in some english and relates to something beyond tipsy but I am new here.
 
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No, we were discussing how the sun appeared to others in the past and some were arguing that the sun had changed. I was arguing that it was not the sun but our perception but for now I am no longer tipsy but [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ed. :)

Huh?

I was saying that when I wrote and posted my post 208, I was tipsy.
 
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What does it mean when we say a thing is a particular colour?

Do we mean it has a certain pigment? How then can we say the sun is any colour? Is the sun pigmented? And does that pigment (if any) make any difference to how we perceive it?

Or when we say colour, do we mean the wavelength of light that is being reflected by it? But then, you could say I am wearing a white dress, but if I then stand so I am being lit only be a blue light, the dress will only reflect blue. Has the dress become blue? Does saying the dress is blue tell us anything about the dress, or just about the light shining on it?
Yes, colour is what John Locke called a 'secondary quality', a quality that is not inherent in the object, but that is a sensation caused in us by some primary property of the object, e.g. the frequencies of light it reflects.
 
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As previously described, unreliabliity is a feature of human memory, due to the way it works; it's been shown repeatedly in controlled experiments.

Even hyperthymesiacs (people with highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM), who can remember what happened on almost every day of their lives, make similar kinds of memory errors.
 
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