Child 'knows' 'red' not as a name we gave to the certain light waves, but certain light waves brain senses. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "What is happening during an 'a.e.'?" Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:35:59 EDT In a message dated 4/4/10 2:17:35 PM, [email protected] writes: > At some point one (probably as a very young child) has to be told that a > certain optical cognitive activity is the sensation of redness. No one > knows redness intuitively. > I can't be sure what you have in mind with 'know', but if you mean no one knows what to call a certain color until they're taught -- "This is red!" -- I agree. The other night we saw RED, the play about Rothko. At one point Rothko (played energetically by Alfred Molina) rattles off the names of a dozen or so different hues, and I realized I couldn't begin to "picture" them, or even, if I were shown them, put the "right" names on each.
