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But then, is color what we perceive or a wavelength ? Do people with four or five color receptors rather than three actually see more colors than the rest of us ?

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:03:08 AM EST
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Yes, color is what we perceive, and people with four colour receptors would be to regular people like regular people to colour-blind people (who have only two pigments).

What this optical illusion shows is that even the "equality of colour" (supposedly, people can agree that two colours are the same without having to agree on what colour they perceive it to be) experiments can be ambiguous.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:12:36 AM EST
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