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----------------------------------------------- A Rose by Any Other Name Would Look as Red Human brains seem to calibrate color vision against a standard, making up for differences in eye hardware. by, Khalil A. Cassimally 31 January 2007 Every person is different. Take my neighbor, for example. He has amazingly selective hearing. When his two dogs start to bark madly at 2 a.m, he is undisturbed, whereas I fall out of bed thinking that the Death-Eaters are attacking my house. Maybe his eyesight is different too. That would explain why he waters his lawn every single day, even though it looks pretty green to me. Which makes me wonder: Does he see colors differently than I do? Could our eyes be telling us different stories? In this lawn-watering example, the answer seems to be no. Barring color blindness, no… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-truth-about-rose-tinted-glasses/
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