The Cult of Purple!

Let us then imagine that you are given a small implant, consisting just of a photocell that responds to that wavelength and in doing so triggers a small electric shock to you. Not painful just enough that you can't fail to be aware of it. Now when you see some object coloured purple you feel a mild electric shock, so you can identify those items possessed of this supposed property. However, our minds and bodies, being as they are soon adjusts to this shock to the point where you are no longer conscious of it. You continue however to be aware of perceiving the supposed property 'purple.' If you doubt this is possible read up on Blind sight and super blind sight. Now, when you see an object which others say is coloured purple you too refer to it as purple. You have become accustomed to call it purple. Is this much different from anyone else? Maybe not. Maybe when faced with a purple object I experience exactly that which you experience when you see a red object. Yet all that matters is that then I see a purple object I say purple and so to you. Our internal subjective experience cancels out all the best urban

Sorry you can't grasp purple, Ted. It is a beautiful color. Shades of blue blended with red. Simply amazing. Unfortunately, it is one of the many things in life that have to be seen to be believed...or was that your satirical point?

hehehe...this is whole discussion is hilarious. It is to bad that you can't see purple. My favorite color is lavender; light, pastel like, pinkish purple. It is a very pretty color..tis to bad you can't see it... be careful at those manilia colored green lights, that could get confusing...