> "you would also have no sense of change, and no other information if the > room was completely black or blue or green or yellow or red or orange." > > Absolutely, it's the uniformity that is key. Where did I state otherwise?
well, your statement seemed to be backing the argument that the colour white was used for a special reason - but i was saying that based on your argument this couldn't be true, as you seem to now agree; the uniformity of white is no different from the uniformity of any other colour. > > "this is not philosophy." > > Please, let me know what is! Knowing philosophy yourself, you'll know that > simple examples and thought experiments then lead onto the kind of inquiry > that perhaps you mean by 'philosophy'. I'm guessing - or were you just > having a dig? sorry, i was just having a dig - philosophy is too big a subject for this list! :]
