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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the very greatest respect, Jack, it IS effing perception. I've demonstrated that by posting a photograph of my Voyage screen, which some of us don't see any colour in, while others do. The colour is physically there, to be sure, but not everyone "sees" it.
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Yes but, Harry, the implication, which is sometimes made explicit, is that those who perceive the color gradient are perceiving 'correctly what is actually there' whereas those who don't are not. I find that to be a problematical assertion. We all know that the act of seeing is inextricably tied to some very sophisticated signal processing by the brain, and actually by the eye itself before the information even reaches the visual cortex. Since an e-reader is made only to be seen by human beings, claims that the display can be more truly evaluated by non-human means, such as cameras, appear to me to be questionable.
It is, of course, also true that humans tend to become emotionally invested in their judgements and opinions, and that simply adds another layer of complexity/uncertainty with the respect to the veracity of perception.
I prefer to just enjoy my (mis)perception.