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Re:Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA by pavel_lishin on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:11PM (#14062656)
Wait, if they can "see" the wavelengths - which presumably means they can differentiate between them - how is that not color vision?

Are you saying that despite the fact that their retinas are sensitive to multiple wavelengths of light, their brains throw this information away?

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Re:Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA by DiThi on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:03PM (#14063078)
It's the opposite. The retinas don't have separate receptors for multiple colors, but the iris has a funky "W" shape, which amplifies the (usually undesired) chromatic aberration which is then interpreted by the brain.
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Re:Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA by waywardyouth on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:30PM (#14064264)
'can't process colors the way we do' somehow becomes 'can't process color' .. this I think is roughly what Ned Block called The Harder Problem re consciousness
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Re:Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA by therein on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:29AM (#14066142)
Correct but it was David Chalmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers

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