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tilthat: TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.

nentuaby: I love when apparently Deep questions turn out to have clear empirical answers.

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[-] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Those are cultural associations though, not biological

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Are they? I am sure you must have seen art forms from centuries ago from cultures very alien to your own and were still moved. But even if it was cultural you would still have to wonder why no one is catering to that culture. If a segment of the population really did see colors differently wouldn't someone make stuff for them to get that market?

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just look at how associations between color and genders differ between cultures and change over time. Those differences absolutely exists, you're just not seeing it because you're not the target audience

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If most of history is just one time

https://www.britannica.com/story/has-pink-always-been-a-girly-color

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451877/

No sex differences were found in preference for pink in any of the three societies not influenced by global culture

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very well. Please tell me about the past twenty or so times that boy girl color associations changed.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Even it happening one time is enough to disprove it not happening.

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