Philosophical Questioning of Reality

[TheGatesofLogic]

the funny thing is that the new color would literally be incomprehensible to humans, it would mean absolutely nothing. a FAR better example of this occurs with the mantis shrimp, it has two separately mobile eyes which can sense a wavelength band almost three times as long as the human visual spectrum as well as being able to differentiate light based on polarity, which would be to humans like looking at something and being able to tell that it has two distinct forms of brightness, something literally impossible to visualize since it would require two separate images in the human visual system, and still there's more! Each of these two mobile eyes has three hemispheres and is trinocular and has depth and gauge perception orders of magnitudes more advanced than the human single-hemisphere binocular vision. They are damn impressive animals.

Edited January 27, 2014 by TheGatesofLogic

[rkman]

The universe follows a set of laws that make sense, and explain its various workings. But maybe that isn't all of it. Maybe there are things we simply can't perceive, nor detect

That is not a maybe but a certainty, and it is not a secret. In science it is well known that the two most fundamental physics theories that have been developed (quantum theory and relativity) do not explain everything. That's why science keeps on going. Between "dark matter" and "dark energy", something like 90% of the stuff that the universe is made of is not yet understood.

[SuperFastJellyfish]

the funny thing is that the new color would literally be incomprehensible to humans, it would mean absolutely nothing. a FAR better example of this occurs with the mantis shrimp, it has two separately mobile eyes which can sense a wavelength band almost three times as long as the human visual spectrum as well as being able to differentiate light based on polarity, which would be to humans like looking at something and being able to tell that it has two distinct forms of brightness, something literally impossible to visualize since it would require two separate images in the human visual system, and still there's more! Each of these two mobile eyes has three hemispheres and is trinocular and has depth and gauge perception orders of magnitudes more advanced than the human single-hemisphere binocular vision. They are damn impressive animals.

Minor derailment, but my favorite Oatmeal comic is about the mantis shrimp. Quality stuff right there.