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lisper
on Aug 14, 2014
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What Do Blind People Actually See?
If you have some light perception, what happens if you shine different colors of light in your eye?
jareds
on Aug 14, 2014
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Nothing, it looks the same to me.
Rapzid
on Aug 14, 2014
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I suppose it is possible you're perceiving the light as a particular color, but if you can only perceive that color you would mistaken it for white?
gohrt
on Aug 14, 2014
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I don't know what jareds's situation is, but normal humans have light sensors that are not color sensors, and also have color sensors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell
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