Cobb calls the California recall election for Schwarzenegger, no doubt influenced by the LA Times poll released today giving Arnold 56 percent of the vote.
Aggregated feeds from Bloggercon attendees. [from Scripting.com]
I am #36 on the waiting list where I work to get funding for conference registration and #7 to receive travel money. Since it begins day after tomorrow, I doubt they will get down to me by then. The short of it: I will not be able to attend Bloggercon this year. <sidefrowney>
This website has no words for the California recall. [from Language Removal Services via NPR]
(Vocal cords picture from Language Removal's website)
The extraordinary blog, gammatron (phase ii), points to Martine Nida-Rümelin 's essay:
Pseudonormal Vision and Color Qualia
I always flash back on the cult movie, Dark Star, whenever I encounter phenomenology. The same classic theme is explored here, "does the world inside the mind reflect measurable external quantities, or not?" Dr. Nida-Rümelin's argument, at least in the case of inverted colors, pushes us to the 'not' side - a conclusion that comforts me.
I have some issues with some of the color perception arguments though.
"... one should keep in mind that these labels derive from "blue" (in the case of B-cones), "green" (in the case of G-Cones) and "red" (in the case of R-Cones). These three cone types contain in normal people three chemically different photopigments. The photopigment contained in a receptor determines its characteristic sensitivity to light of different wavelengths. This assumption is central to the following discussion. It implies that a G-cone will react to a specific light stimulus exactly like a normal R-cone if it is filled with the photopigment normally contained in R-cones and vice versa. "
This seems to presuppose that the functionality of each individual sensor is hardwired into the optic signal that is sent from the eye to the brain. It isn't."If a creature sees neither reddishness nor yellowishness in a perceived color, then this constitutes, as Hardin says, its failing to see orange. The same point may be put in another way: Being composed of red and yellow is not just an actual but rather a necessary property of orange. "
What about mixing yellowish and blue-greenish? Might not some color you could call orange come out? I think so."A creature who has visual experiences that realize the phenomenal structure (Sp) necessarily has experiences of red, green, blue, and yellow. "
Or maybe, RGBY are primary colors only because of several millennia of artistic sensibilities?
