Deep Stoner Thoughts

[Capt.Ahab]

Thanks for the reply HempKat. There is no right or wrong. No matter what color they see compared to what you see you would never know what they perceive in their minds eye unless you could get into their head and see what they see. Even if you are both looking at the sky and you see "blue " but they see what you call "red" you would both agree that the sky is blue because both have been taught that the name of the color they see is blue..

 

[Weezard]

Colors are what they are, different wavelengths of light.
All this exercise would do is swap "labels", yah?
The labels, in all languages, are a human artiface.
Don't mean shit to the sun, son.

 

[dj.scotfree]

Colors are what they are, different wavelengths of light.
All this exercise would do is swap "labels", yah?
The labels, in all languages, are a human artiface.
Don't mean shit to the sun, son.

Well said... one love, peace. DJSF

 

[stinkyigloo]

I work as a geologist. Sometimes the biggest hang up i would have was whether to call a sample greeny grey or greyey green. It was a tough job! Boss said it didnt matter a fuck, you could get 20 people and they would all call it something different

 

[Stoner4Life]

 

[HempKat]

Thanks for the reply HempKat. There is no right or wrong. No matter what color they see compared to what you see you would never know what they perceive in their minds eye unless you could get into their head and see what they see. Even if you are both looking at the sky and you see "blue " but they see what you call "red" you would both agree that the sky is blue because both have been taught that the name of the color they see is blue..

Ah but you would know something was amiss if they said "the sky is blue just like roses are blue and apples are blue and strawberries are blue." If at that point though you said, "no wait, roses, strawberries and apples are all red" they likely wouldn't start seeing those things as red. They would continue to see those things as blue and for them it would be just as real as you seeing them as red. So if the reality of their color is just as real for each of you then again who would be right and who would be wrong? Your answer is correct though there is no right or wrong in that scenario there is just what "is" to each individual, a reality as real as the next person's even if those realities differ. I don't ask the question in search of an answer I ask it to provoke thought.

 

[Stonefree69]

Is there an I in team? Is it “I 1st.....” or “1st”?!

Also Windows IE web browsers (9-11) causing major problems... LOL

 

[Weezard]

"the sky is blue just like roses are blue and apples are blue and strawberries are blue."

Sometimes they just are.

 

[dstark]

Humans are their memories and aspirations. Memory in a sense of every thing, from the moment you are born, that what makes you who you are. Without aspiration you are not alive, anyone aspire for something whether it is a job/securing financial future or just simple plain peace of mind.

 

[Rob547]

why are adults so boring? Why do only kids eat dinosaur nuggets and spongebob mac and cheese? things could be so much more interesting.... all we get is elbows!

 

[J.V]

Colors are what they are, different wavelengths of light.
All this exercise would do is swap "labels", yah?
The labels, in all languages, are a human artiface.
Don't mean shit to the sun, son.

I believe it was Newton that discovered this, while observing the refraction of light thru a glass prism......cool

 

[Crooked8]

Eating an apple....add whip cream?......yesssss

 

[Hank Hemp]

I believe it was Newton that discovered this, while observing the refraction of light thru a glass prism......cool

I believe it was a Arab in the middle ages.

 

[Weezard]

Not for nothin', but Roger Bacon recorded observations of the spectrum in a glass of water 400 years before Newton wrote "Opticks".

Might want to look into Bacon, he was brilliant, and tasty.

Aloha,
Wee

 

[unclefishstick]

I believe it was Newton that discovered this, while observing the refraction of light thru a glass prism......cool

I believe it was a Arab in the middle ages.

Not for nothin', but Roger Bacon recorded observations of the spectrum in a glass of water 400 years before Newton wrote "Opticks".

Might want to look into Bacon, he was brilliant, and tasty.

Aloha,
Wee

all of you have a piece of the puzzle here...
newton provided the mathematical framework...
i think it was ibn-al-rashid who recorded some early observations but that was during the dark ages rather than middle and bacon recorded the same sort of observations for the anglo-saxon set..

 

[Hank Hemp]

Darks ages was a European thing. Not the Arabs, now is Islam's dark age.

 

[dddaver]

Tyson talked about that very thing on Cosmos last night. I was half listening and pretty stoned but I think he said that prism thing was the birth of astrophysics and it was another guy after Newton that really did it, I don't know if he even mentioned that Arab. When they start showing them dumb-ass cartoons I tune out, so maybe he did say that.

 

[unclefishstick]

im sure if you were to ask this question in a non euro-centric area of the world you would get different answers,there being a huge body of such work from india and china and as mentioned the arab world,really anywhere along the silk road the information discovered by the greeks would have been spread and pondered upon....and given the propensity of some of those cultures in smokable enlightenment im sure someone said in hindi or sanskrit or arabic "dude,check out that rainbow,i wonder what causes that?"


edit,i see it was harun-al-rashid i was thinking of....sorry,only got a b- in 12th century arabic history....

 

[Denghis Khan]

If use my loofa to wash my taint, does that mean my loofa is "tainted?"

 

[ozzieAI]

common sense and common courtesy are no longer COMMON....