I am very honored to use Asutintorn's visualizations in this post. Thank you, Austintorn. Really cool! And you're right, they never get old!
In this image, we are looking from a bird's eye view down on the pyramid of colors and forces. In top (which is the center position in this image) we find white as the ultra-bright delivery of the mixture of these colors. As explained earlier, this is an abstract delivery, where yellow is one of the three primary colors of reflection of light, and green is one of the three primary colors of light-as-source. Within these two aspects of light green is not a primary color in the reflection, and yellow not a primary color in the light-as-source part. Duality is therefore part and parcel of this abstract pyramid.
To state that white is the overall color brings us very close to the discussion about overall conclusions. Nobody and I agree that white is not really
the overall color, rather it is the overall composite of the various colors. As such, one could argue that — just like black — white is not a color. Yet instead of white being one that lacks reflection or lacks light source, white is not a color since it is not self-based, but based on the full-out reflection of others/full-out delivery of light by others. If you wish, we could compare this to 1, being not a prime number (though only divisible by 1). Nobody and I agree that this spot may appear singular, but is not singular in nature. It is composite based.
Yet, the conclusions for the entire pyramid cannot be based on this specific spot either. While the option exists to philosophically negate the title of color for white, it does not negate these titles for blue, yellow, or red. These colors are truly there, and truly what they are: self-based colors. These colors are self-based either in both respects (for red and blue) or in one respect (for yellow or green). Philosophically: white is not really there (even when the composite is there), and the primary colors are there. Individually, the primary colors are the basis, collectively, they create white (or in more ordinary situations: gray).
In this second image made by Austintorn, we look at the pyramid bottom-up, and we see that in the center not much is happening. If I take the two positions
young and
old as green and yellow then in the middle we find the people that are neither young nor old. And this is a good example of the phenomenon of nothing, for it does not mean nothing is there, but that in respect to the framework there is a position in the middle that delivers a zero result. Being 37 years old means neither young nor old, but it does not mean you stop breathing. And while some say that it sucks to get older (I disagree), you do not get sucked into the black hole in the middle.
New example, same result. If we take left and right as the framework, we've got a spot of nothing in the middle that is really there. Most people would like to say that left and right meet in the middle, but that's the whole point: they don't meet. In the middle we find a spot that is neither left nor right — but it is still there. So, the black in the middle of the pyramid is really a spot in the pyramid, but as far as the specifics of the framework are concerned, there ain't much there. It is a perfect spot over which to have a tug-of-war, but all we would then be doing is forcing a solution for this spot that is either left or right; it does not make the center spot of not-left-nor-right go away, such specific result only shows who was able to influence the middle outcome.