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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I know I heard about a group in Africa (IIRC) where they have a lot more words for greens, but they don't have a word for blue, or something like that. When given a test to identify the odd color out, when it's a very slight tint change of green they identify it quickly, but most westerners take a lot longer. When all of them are green, but then there's a blue one, they take a long time, but westerners see it instantly.

It's why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed. Just our launguage can shape our recognition of the world. Imagine how much the rest of our culture, education, and surroundings influence us. None of these make us better or smarter than anyone else, yet they'll all make us better or worse at different things. They're all valuable, and it's part of why diversity, equity, and inclusion are so important. These different points of view can bring so much value to us

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed.

Since you have failed to correctly define the words “highfalutin”, “dogsbody”, “apiary”, “valise”, “collet”, “haruspex”, “threnody”, or even “copse”, we regret to inform you that you are functionally illiterate and likely mentally disabled.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

highfalutin

Person that farts a lot

dogsbody

Body of dog

apiary

BEES

valise

That stuff that reduces friction

collet

Piece of meat

haruspex

Protagonist no. 2 of Pathologic, and protagonist of Pathologic 2

threnody

Made up word

copse

Corpse without r

😎

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I didn't know Pathologic took place in the world of Harry Potter.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

The same is true for English too.

Brown and orange are different brightness levels of the same colour. Brown is dark orange and orange is light brown. Yet people experience brown and orange as separate colours, because we have separate words for it, while we experience light blue and dark blue as different brightness levels of the same colour, because both are called "blue".

[–] ouRKaoS 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had the hood of a car come down on the back of my head when I was taking out an alternator.

I saw all kinds of new colors!

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 3 points 6 days ago

You could have done something more productive, like coming up with the Flux capacitor....

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The visual spectrum is finite. So it's an impossible task.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago

There's actually impossible colors that can be seen by playing with the visual spectrum of the color sensitive molecules. You can also play with visual processing to further see impossible colors

I'm not saying there's infinite combinations, but there's ones you've never seen and no one has a word for

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Brown is not in the color spectrum, doesn't have a wavelength, yet we can imagine it and see it.

Space is a finite number (three) of dimensions, yet we can imagine space with higher number of dimensions.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Yup technically orange

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Brown is on the colour spectrum, it does have a wavelength. Specifically, it has the same wavelength as orange. Because brown is dark orange and orange is light brown.

What's not on the colour spectrum are multi-wavelength mixed colours like e.g. red and blue light combining to something that looks like spectral violet. And while these multi-wavelength colours are physically different than a pure spectral colour, the sensation to a human is identical, because both trigger the cone cells in the eyes in an identical way. Which is why we can have screens that only emit three colours and still trigger the same sensations as millions of different spectral colours.

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Really ? Cool, I didn't know.

I can't find the wavelength online, can you tell me what wavelength brown is exactly ? By that I mean any specific length that if a light source only emits that wavelength would be brown.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

590-620nm. Identical to orange.

The difference between brown and orange is the brightness level, and since the eyes have an automatic brightness adjustment, brightness levels only appear in context.

Light becomes a darker variant if there's brighter light around and vice versa. Shine brown/orange light into a dark room, and it will appear orange. Shine the same light into a brighter context, and it will be brown.

It's exactly the same thing as e.g. dark blue or light blue. Both share the exact same wavelength, and their brightness becomes apparent in context.

If you've ever been to a cinema and you saw anything brown or orange on screen, you have seen the effect. If you have ever seen a dim conventional light bulb in a bright room, you have seen it too.

Brown has just as much a wave length as orange, because it's the same color.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Also magenta. Actually, white and black too.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

greg2

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indefinite?

indefinite /ĭn-dĕf′ə-nĭt/ adjective

  1. Not definite, especially.
  2. Unclear; vague.
  3. Lacking precise limits. "an indefinite leave of absence."
[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a vague notion of a new color. Success!

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

I'm thinking take an artist with exquisite color sense, and dose them (consentually) with mushrooms/ acid; that should do the trick.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Infinity does not require to be all encompassing.

The set of natural numbers is infinite, yet it contains no negative numbers.
The set of whole numbers is infinite, yet it contains no fractional numbers, except arbitrary fractions like four halves.
The set of fractional numbers is infinite, yet it does not contain most real numbers...

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So? It says human imagination is indefinite.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Well, have you tried definiting it, huh?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Pick any two adjacent known colors. Find the wavelength midpoint between these colors. Determine if this is a known color. Repeat until you've found an unclassified color.

This isn't an imagination problem, its a math problem.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Everything is a math problem. It just needs to be written in the proper form.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Colors aren't sharp combinations of wavelengths though.

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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

octarine

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

new

But yah, my favourite one as well

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

But we did recently invent a new color, or at least a new way to perceive color.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-discover-new-color-thats-impossible-to-see-without-lasering-your/

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

This one’s for me! I saw a new color the second time I broke through on DMT! I can still see it in my imagination. I’ve broken through since and haven’t seen it again.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trying to imagine objects in higher than 3 spatial dimensions.

Imagining 2 or more temporal dimensions.

Designing a system of governance that is fair to all constituents, physically realizable, and marketable enough to convince future constituents to follow it.

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[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Epic Its like a purple, blue, pink, but more vibrant with sparkles. Similar to what is used for epic level items in games, hence the name.

[–] Allero 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For this to be a color, it needs to be even at all points, so no sparkles!

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, no, they have a point - if they can imagine something that's perfectly uniform and sparkly, then that'd actually be something novel

[–] Allero 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough!

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also a cool thing about imaginination, is you don't have to stick to or define all the parameters to imagine it. You can go like, I'm imagining in this imaginary senario I've figured that part out, and just run with it.

[–] Allero 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

True, but when we say we can't imagine something, we don't mean a mental construct that we don't think through, we mean something tangible. In case of color, it means actually visualizing it mentally, not imagining there could be something.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sounds self imposed.

[–] Allero 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah, just two different meanings of "imagine".

One is to imagine a color

And the other to imagine there is a color.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not really seing how those are different forms of imagination. And also, still imagining the color, just ignoring the limitations or letting them fill themselves in.

I can picture a solid color that sparkles evenly, or even that has just one shimmer evenly across the whole surface, however the initial premise was just the limits of imagination, and you don't need to self-impose a bunch of parameters onto it like you're engineering something in real life. You don't need to imagine it 100% accurate to the point where you could reconstruct it, even partially imagining something is still imagining it, and you can even expand on it over time.

[–] Allero 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the first case, you can visualize it, at least mentally, like, actually see it.

In the second, you just imagine it could be a thing.

For me at least, these are two wildly different concepts.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Trying to think of a new colour after turning off my mental safeguards felt like I was a computer dividing by zero. Honestly, would not recommend.

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