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  • This phrasing always bothers me a little, because, as even the article quotes a scientist saying: “All colors are made up by the brain.”

    Purple is special because it triggers from non-continuous wavelengths of light, not because the subjective experience of purple is an invention of the brain. Being ‘invented’ is something common to all colors. Or sounds. Or tastes.





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    18 days ago

    A percentage is a percentage, regardless of how much money you have. Your reply was that investinghaving ‘the money’ made me ‘the problem’ as if only wealthy people could buy stocks. I satirized that, because it takes very little money to invest in the stock market. Whether you have other reasons to choose not to do so is a different matter.