Isn't it amazing that how we describe the world has such a strong influence on how we see it? http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2
I couldn't detect the different shade of green. I had to use the guide on the article to figure it out and I still couldn't see the difference.
My first idea was they were going to say that way back when people saw blue as a shade of black. Like lots of people regard orange as a shade of yellow and I know people who say green is a shade of blue, (though I think they're weird and/or color blind) I also wonder if it's possible they just never mentioned that the sky was any particular color but just said that it was either clear or overcast. It is the one thing just about everybody sees the same. OTOH that doesn't explain why nobody saw the sea as blue, and the sea is seen as many colors, blue is just one. In fact, so is the sky, but then that's mainly just clouds that change color Strange. Is there any program that can search many documents for a particular word? I'd like to run Gutenberg for blue, maybe the article just didn't do enough searching
Neither could I, which makes me question that anyone could do it, without some difference being involved, between those that can detect a difference and those that cannot. Simple not having a word for the color blue seems a bit far fetched, as being used for the reason these people can detect such a small difference in green. It also seems to me that all human beings can detect different colors, but why they would not separate blue out and name it seems very odd. We, in the natural environment are surrounded by green and blue unless you live in a barren area, and then it would be brown, different shades, or other earth tones and the blue of the sky, of the ocean, of particular lakes, which are of course reflecting the blue of the sky. We do know that the eskimos have several different words for snow, which designate the type of snow it is, while we don't break it down in as many ways as they do. Of course if a people lived in a thick canopy rain forest, they might never even see the color blue of the sky, but surely there would be blue flowers in such an environment, which would stand out from the other colors.
