Posted: Feb 26, 2016 8:47 pm
CdesignProponentsist wrote:DavidMcC wrote:
EDIT: We do not need any words to be able to perceive colour, only to be able to talk about it.
There is actually evidence that shows that language has significant influence on what colors we perceive. The experiment with Himba tribe's people in the linked video is pretty telling.
http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=30 ... tCveZwrJhE
Your cultural language of color can make the difference between what colors are perceived as as different from other colors. What I might recognize as Blue-Green, another culture may only perceptive as Blue and no different from what I see as Blue.
So perceiving distinct colors is a learned behavior driven by our language of color.
I regard this as bad scence, CdP, because why would only the Himba be able to "learn" not to see blue? More likely, it is as I described in an old thread of mine on the Himba's colour vision. Before intermarraige with the Herero tribe, they were likely all tritanopes, (insensitive to blue light, because the refractive index of the human lens starts to change in the blue, and this would slightly blur their distance vision - an important issue for a tribe that has to spot tiny dots on the (blue) horizon. I wrote a thread on this a few years ago. It's mainly biology, not learning, that affects their vision.