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How do you describe colour to a dog?
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How do you describe colour to a dog?C.O.R.N.
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Is this a trick question?
I once believed that dogs saw in black and white but apparently that's fallacy, dogs do in fact see colour.
Whereas humans work on the basis that there are 3 primary colours (red, blue and yellow) dog's eyes aren't as sophisticated as ours (they contain less cones) and so only see blue and yellow.
So the question should be how do you describe the colours red, purple and orange to a dog?
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Is this a trick question?I once believed that dogs saw in black and white but apparently that's fallacy, dogs do in fact see colour.
Whereas humans work on the basis that there are 3 primary colours (red, blue and yellow) dog's eyes aren't as sophisticated as ours (they contain less cones) and so only see blue and yellow.
So the question should be how do you describe the colours red, purple and orange to a dog?
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this question was in the presumption that dogs could only see black and white. I was going to write, How do you describe colour to a blind man but anyhow.
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this question was in the presumption that dogs could only see black and white. I was going to write, How do you describe colour to a blind man but anyhow. C.O.R.N.
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Yeah describing almost anything to a blind man would be difficult (assuming he's been blind his entire life). We take for granted the frames of reference and short-cuts we make everyday to describe things or liken them to other things.
It's said that some blind people actually "see" colour - it's not just blackness, like the white spots you may get infront of your vision if you stand up too quickly or something.
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Yeah describing almost anything to a blind man would be difficult (assuming he's been blind his entire life). We take for granted the frames of reference and short-cuts we make everyday to describe things or liken them to other things.It's said that some blind people actually "see" colour - it's not just blackness, like the white spots you may get infront of your vision if you stand up too quickly or something.
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Yeah, try to see what a blind man sees. That'll have you stumped. Also when you see "nothing" what is nothing? Nothing can't be black because black is something
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Yeah, try to see what a blind man sees. That'll have you stumped. Also when you see "nothing" what is nothing? Nothing can't be black because black is somethingC.O.R.N.
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There is and has never been "nothing" - nothing cannot exist as a concept. There is always something.
How do we know this? Well it's the backbone to which physics is built on, without getting too involved elementary particles are always being created and destroyed within a vacuum so "nothing" is actually a collection of particles ... which is obviously something lol.
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There is and has never been "nothing" - nothing cannot exist as a concept. There is always something. How do we know this? Well it's the backbone to which physics is built on, without getting too involved elementary particles are always being created and destroyed within a vacuum so "nothing" is actually a collection of particles ... which is obviously something lol.
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hhmmmm... your crazy scientific rant was confusing... I was just wondering because I was reading some Matthew Reilly book and y'know, someone dies which the author describes as "and then...nothing.." so I sat there for ages trying to figure out what nothing was. I mean nothing could (as you said, sorta) be something that can't be seen???
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hhmmmm... your crazy scientific rant was confusing... I was just wondering because I was reading some Matthew Reilly book and y'know, someone dies which the author describes as "and then...nothing.." so I sat there for ages trying to figure out what nothing was. I mean nothing could (as you said, sorta) be something that can't be seen???C.O.R.N.
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Well the closest thing we can get to nothing is a vacuum (not a hoover lol but rather a "volume of space that is essentially empty of matter" - thanks Wikipedia lol) but even within a vacuum elementary particles are being created and destroyed.
So nothing is something ... if you like.
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Well the closest thing we can get to nothing is a vacuum (not a hoover lol but rather a "volume of space that is essentially empty of matter" - thanks Wikipedia lol) but even within a vacuum elementary particles are being created and destroyed. So nothing is something ... if you like.
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I saw in a movie once how this guy described color to his blind girlfriend. For white he handed her a handful of cotton balls, for red he handed her a potato right out of boiling water, for blue he handed her an ice cube and for green he made her smell fresh cut grass. Now I don't see how any of that equates to color but I give him points for trying. I see where his logic is. My wife is a Special Ed teacher and she comes up with all kinds of ways to teach her students, it's amazing with what you can come up with if you put your mind to it!!!
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^ ha! a hot boiling potato for red!? I bet you white ended up being her favorite color :-D
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^ ha! a hot boiling potato for red!? I bet you white ended up being her favorite color :-DPetey! sup my ninja?
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