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# Ooooh, how interesting.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 11:43, archived)
# so - as I understand it - day light (high light saturation colour) vision is performed by groups of
photoreceptive cells in the retina called cones. There are three types of cone, each is sensitive to different wavelengths of light and the combinations of reactions of these three types of cone allows for the spectrum of visible light to be experienced. For me (again - this is just my understanding of it) different wavelengths of light (which would cause a different combination of reactions in these cells in a normal person) are treated with the same reaction, and so to my mind are the experienced as being the same or very similar...

another aspect of it is that I was always very poor with colours as a young child (because of the colour blindness) and so have a natural aversion to thinking in terms of colours.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 11:52, archived)
# ha - perhaps I should be a teacher
/irony.blog
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 11:54, archived)
# it's a really interesting topic
I'll look more into it.
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 11:56, archived)