Andrew

[claudiu]

Hi Andrew,

@Andrew

The sky is blue because the blue wavelengths of light are shorter than the red, and are scattered more easily by the atmosphere. Water appears blue because it reflects the sky.

Water is transparent because hydrogen and oxygen are also transparent.

The objections about color I gave were from an actual adult person that had been blind their entire lives. These explanations don’t make sense to them, because they have never seen color. Here is the link again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YN8_lg6-U .

The point is that seeing color is experiential, and no amount of intellectual explanations will allow one to see color.

And if you can see color, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, you are still seeing it.

@Andrew

He specifically says “stillness”. […] It’s a silly objection not to have investigated, but it’s not a silly thing to point out.

It is silly to harbor this objection for years and not just go ahead and gain the experiential knowledge instead, to resolve it.

Richard’s description of pure intent is apt. However it seems expounding on it has had the result for you to go backwards towards defensive intellectualization. But the intent was rather to encourage you to naively just go and see for yourself! So rather than expound on it again I’ll just leave off with this salient point so it is not diluted again:

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@claudiu

It is resolved simply: just experience it for yourself what is being discussed! And then you can come up with a better way to describe it with your own words.

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Cheers,
Claudiu