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[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

They still taste good. So they got that going for them I guess.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 minutes ago

I'm not a fan, but that's neither here nor there. I'm weird.

I'm just not sure that flavor can be considered a positive character trait?

Maybe I'm stupid. Who knows? Clearly not me.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 4 hours ago

!lemmysilver

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So are any animals actually capable of seeing the invisible spectrums of light? Because humans technically can see them, since we make tools that allow us to. Suck on that, other animals. 😤

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Like infrared and ultraviolet? Yeah, there are animals that see those.

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And all the other stuff we yse to see celestial objects and communicate long distance. Our phones are able to see colours we can't!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about how a species with a metal horn could evolve to use it as a radio and even a hive mind.

[–] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 minutes ago (1 children)

Imagine aliens attacking us but getting fucked because their hive mind works on the same frequency of radio or wifi.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 minutes ago

I'm pretty sure if it worked on any frequency in the charged electromagnetic spectrum, they would get completely screwed long before they made it to earth.

As a qualified amateur operator, the radio spectrum is noisy.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Really wish talking about what shrimp see didn't remind me that in farming them females have one eye removed to promote breeding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation

[–] Sedathems@mander.xyz 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I am eternally gratefull the practice is forbidden in Europe in organic cultivation. It's one of the small wins that fly under the radar. It's still a long way to people choosing for organic, awareness is the start of every change.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 minutes ago

Can't fix what you don't know is wrong.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Technically, all the colors are fake. They're just the halucinations of a brain trying to understand the input from sensory organs.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

That doesn't make them fake, in the same way that x can mean 2. You are merely representing a given value (in this case light within a certain electromagnetic spectrum) in a useful way.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But is my red the same as your red? Hmmm?

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

if two people can both point to red and agree that it's red, that's close enough. anything beyond that is just pointless esoteric debate.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Some people see numbers instead/along with colors, and different people see different numbers, so I guess the colors might be different between people too

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

I would be way more surprised if people who saw numbers with colors all saw the same numbers.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree that it's pointless. I think it may be beneficial to humanity (eventually) to establish whether or not there is an objective reality which we all experience.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

i agree, but that's a job for neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and psychology; not a pack of dorks on the fediverse.

[–] Sedathems@mander.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago

it's more in the philosophy ballpark, which shapes the interpretration of methodology and the consequences, in my humble opinion.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But what if the dorks on the fediverse are scientists?

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

then by all means

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

But I want to contribute to humanity in a meaningful way!

-me, a dork on the Fediverse nearly incapable of contributing to humanity in a meaninful way

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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

I hadn't thought about it that way.

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No, colors are real. And you see them.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Pink isn't real. There is no wavelength of light that is pink.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 minute ago

Clearly, it's light-ish red.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Its bright red, maybe toward purple! Brown is dark orange.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 minute ago

This person colors

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Light frequencies between blue and red don't exist.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine how OP their colour perception would be if they did have that mental processing power

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Oh that explains this scene

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

I don't think of it as drama so much as docucomedy.

[–] Wizzard@lemm.ee 11 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

But compared with human eyesight, they could still see more 'colors' - As we see (almost) the same white in incandescent bulbs as LEDs and fluorescents, they might actually see the component colors and their intensities.

Not unlike how we may hear a combination tone when multiple other tones are played, and hear the difference (or sum) of them.

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[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I hate that it invalidates this episode of radiolab, which is, without a doubt, a masterpiece of podcasting:

https://youtu.be/jibvu9BHV_k?t=795

i saved the video at the 13 minute mark where they do the audio representation of the vivid colors. still worth a watch/listen

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I need to use wherewithal more in my daily life

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Every lunar month, when there is a full moon, i try quitting caffeine

werewithdrawal

(I initially misread you comment)

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[–] taulover@sopuli.xyz 136 points 1 day ago (16 children)

The way mantis shrimp see is nonetheless super cool and interesting. They likely have no conception of 2D color at all, and can only sense the 12 different colors in general. Furthermore, only the midband of their eyes see color, when the eyes are moving and scanning for prey, they don't see color at all, which probably helps offload mental load for their small brains. Once they do see something, they then stop moving their eyes to determine the color of what they're looking at.

Also, mantis shrimp have 6 more photoreceptors in addition to the 12 colored ones, to detect polarized light. They likely see them the same way that they see color, so they probably don't consider them anything different than wavelength which is what we interpret as color.

Ed Yong's An Immense World has a section on this and I'd highly recommend it. The ways animals sense and perceive the world are often so different for ours and it's so fascinating.

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