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photonic37
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Your intuition isn’t far off; there is an angle where the weight of green relative to the sum over wavelengths sees a local maximum. But it doesn’t dominate. In that transition zone, there is still an overlapping, transitioning abundance of redder and bluer wavelengths, adding with the green. Consequently, you see red, going into a red+green transition (== oranges, yellows), go into into a green+blue transition (== cyan), which already has few photons relative to the red and yellow zones, so it’s a dark/weak cyan, before it blends into the darker blue of the night sky.
photonic37
·4 anni fa·discuss
I often find myself wondering if the same is true from simply going to sleep at night.

You woke up this morning, and you are likely pretty confident that you’re the same entity that went to sleep yesterday. Are you?

A pause in continuous consciousness is a convenient way to think of a discrete “before” and “after” entity, but why shouldn’t it generalize further? Is the person who occupied your body and saw through your eyes five minutes ago alive in a meaningful way right now?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/is-beaming-down-in-st...