re GR Title

Teen Age Riot alwang at eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Wed May 1 16:38:08 CDT 1996


> 
> > Also by our brain's tendency to
> > 'spontaneously' categorize a spectrum of colour into seven distinct
> > colours.
> >
> Wether you see 7 colors or 7 million they are all there in the rainbow,
> the effect would exist even if all humans were colorblind.  Our attachment
> of Roy G. Biv to the rainbow is simply our way of percieving a physical
> phenomenon, so I would argue that the cultural aspects of color perception
> have little to do with the cause of the rainbow, and more to do with its
> interpretation.

So are you saying that perception of physical phenomena isn't affected by 
preconceptions ground in through cultural learning?  Oooh, don't go there...

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