The Inverted Spectrum Problem
An example of alternative
perception of colors. In the right image we can see the normal picture of a little boy
playing with colors (what a coincidence!). In the central image we can see the same
picture with the red and green channel mixed together as we can image it would happen in a
color blind person. We can notice that the green and the red canvas appears to be of the same
color while the blue and the yellow canvas appears to be the same. In this case we could
detect somebody whos seeing the world in this fashion because there is a loss of
information (and information belong to the objective, scientific, observable world
). In the left image the red channel and the green one have been swapped together
(like a perfect color blind). Although the blue and the yellow
canvas area, as usual, the
same, the red and the green appears to be swapped but look!
the boy is using green
this time so, from the point of view of the normal observer, nothing has changed. The
reason is that there is no information loss (we could say that the syntax of the problem
has remained the same) while the meaning has changed (we could say that the semantic of
the problem has changed).
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