Color Perception

Response to David Tynan - full post here

This is quite the interesting question; I was thinking about something related to it in class. Functional tetrachromacy seldom occurs in humans, though retinal (non-functional) tetrachromacy is more common; rods may help see colors in low light intensity, giving many humans a sort of tetrachromacy rather than trichromacy.

Even on a more common level, people see colors differently. I recently took a colour distinction test, and received a perfect score. While my friends did well, they did not do perfectly. Many non-color blind people are unable to distinguish one kind of red from another. So, how you perceive any given color may be drastically different from your friends; your friends may see that sunset just a little more vividly than you can.

Also, interestingly, with advancements in technology related to the human eye, humans may eventually be able to unlock the ability to perceive more light wavelengths. That is, assuming the human mind will eventually be able to process the information, technology could allow humans to have gamma ray vision, x-ray vision, ultraviolet vision, optical light vision (we have this already), infrared vision, microwave vision, and radio-wave vision. Of course, we would have to have the ability to shut these off when we want, otherwise we would all be effectively blind.

Beautiful Precision

Pregunta 2: Can you find you beauty in precision (related to math, science, architecture, etc.)?

I personally believe that you can find beauty in precision. Though, I suppose that precision may be only a part of what people can find beautiful in any given object. I'm not sure how to distinguish them exactly. I mean, I think that there is something to be said about precision and sharpness of angles in architecture, though I am not sure that one can separate precision from other elements that makes something beautiful. I'd like to think that I can, but I am not really sure about that. 

I feel a bit like I'm rambling here, and I may be completely wrong to associate this feeling with beauty. I am absolutely fascinated with the amount of mathematical and scientific precision that is part of wind-turbines, and I would consider that precision to be beautiful. To me, beauty from art feels different from beauty from music which feels different from beauty from architecture and mechanical operations. 

What A Beautiful Corpse

Pregunta 1: Is it ever immoral to find something beautiful; for example, is it ever immoral to find a dead person or a tsumani beautiful?

I do not think that it is ever immoral to find something beautiful especially since beauty, I think, is entirely subjective. I also think that what a person finds beautiful is not up to any individual; people are predisposed to find certain things beautiful.

I suppose it would only really become immoral when a person's view that something is beautiful causes that person to act immorally in order to have the opportunity to see that thing. That is, when a person kills another person that they may see a dead person's body, that murderer is immoral not because they find dead people beautiful but because they killed someone.

It may also be a sort of immoral to express what they find beautiful at certain times. It may be immoral to, at a grandmother funeral, to say that you find the dead grandmother to beautiful based exclusively on that fact that she is indeed dead.