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  • Deestan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWho remembers this?
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    16 days ago

    The “color” of a thing is pure perception and often just a genuine personal choice.

    It is annoying to think about it like that, but consider:

    A movie projected onto a white canvas. Before the movie starts, there is no light projecting onto it and it’s just the white canvas.

    The movie opening credit comes on. “ALIEN” it says in thin white letters on black background. The projector does not darken the canvas, just add some lines of light forming letters in the middle. Yet we see black.

    Is the canvas black or white now? If do when did it change? Is it both? How would you describe that?

    People give many answers to this. Most of them based on choice of definition more than objective observation, which I find super interesting.





  • He is such an absurd historical figure to read about, the way he could get people to rally around him and make his armies work smoothly no matter what.

    It looked like he could just wash ashore naked and alone anywhere, recruit a loyal army from whomever appeared to live nearby, and snowball it into a huge professional fighting force on the way to conquer the nearest city.