Colors - Explaining them to blind people, seeing them differently, and more

[Madmitten]

Yeah.

that sucks man

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[mrlolop]

What the what?
Both parts of that didn't make sense to me :(

Read the previous parts of the thread carefully, you'll get the joke.

[Tonce]

that sucks man

yeah, but im happy i can hear now atleast.
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[Regulith]

Explain.

Taste
Touch
Hearing
Sight
Smell
Thermoception (Sense of heat)
Nociception (Sense of pain)
Equilibrioception (Sense of balance)
Proprioception (Sense of body position, i.e. if you close your eyes and hold out your hand, you know where it is)
etc.

It's a constant debate amongst which other ones should be considered senses

[WhatevaGuy]

Proprioception (Sense of body position, i.e. if you close your eyes and hold out your hand, you know where it is)

Isn't this also called 'deep space' or something?

[SupremeCommander]

Isn't this also called 'deep space' or something?

Sense of self.

[DracoSoul]

Is it possible for a new color to exist, one not made up of yellow, blue and red? I'm not sure, I think it IS possible, but since light is a rainbow, it wouldn't reflect any colors, or maybe it would just look black. Again, I'm not sure. It boggles the mind.

[SupremeCommander]

Is it possible for a new color to exist, one not made up of yellow, blue and red? I'm not sure, I think it IS possible, but since light is a rainbow, it wouldn't reflect any colors, or maybe it would just look black. Again, I'm not sure. It boggles the mind.

No. Think about the visible spectrum.
It goes:

Radio Waves
Infrared
Visible Spectrum - (ROYGBIV)
Ultraviolet
x-Ray
Gamma-Ray.

You're limited to what you can do with RGB and CMYK color values, and all mixtures of those. You cannot perceive IV or IR, and that is why we are stuck with what we have.
Anyone who can explain it better, go ahead.