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Originally Posted by N0B0DY  All colors must be the result of variable mixtures of white and black. |
What I find remarkable, Nobody, is that we have agreed close to completely all the time already. It has been great for me to communicate with you, for you have great capacities in understanding my words plus excellent knowledge on what others have achieved (here, in TOEQuest and outside scientifically in the 'real' world). You feel definitively at home in philosophy, too. I consider us to have very much the same ideas, you may just be a better communicator and having more scientific knowledge. At the same time, I expect many people to be able to find a lot in common of their thinking with this TOE (with possibly only small parts as unacceptable or not perfectly fitting).
So, the only sentence I disagree with you out of your post is the one quoted above. All colors are
not variable mixtures of white and black; rather the colors are themselves the beginning, and only then when combined they become white, (and when all are absent they 'become' black). While the name tag 'color' fits right above white in the pyramid of color, only the name tag is the spot of unification (in the abstract). Right underneath we find white, as the closest thing available, but it is not the unification of color, it is not the source of color, and it is not the essence of color: it is where colors are combined in such a special way that we get white. That's all.
The real opposite of black are the colors. White is only the brightest accumulation of the colors. We are getting therefore two lunches for the price of one (one entire lunch from black to colors, one entire lunch extra from colors to white — or, when starting with colors, there are two trajectories, one to black, one to white).
I am reminded of
One-eye being king in the land of the blind. The phenomenon of seeing is all-achieved with just one eye; really, who needs more? Yet once we are all one-eyed, living in a nation, we then start looking for who would be king. Interestingly, we tend to not look for people with two eyes, because we consider
Two-eye to be weird. Rather we look for who or what can be considered as having the most and best of one-eye.
Where in the land of the color blind,
Blue-eye would already be king, in the land of one-eyes
White-eye becomes king, and not
Green-and-red-eye. With knowing that unification never exists (except in the abstract), I must declare
Green-and-red-eye king, and while I may be charmed by gorgeous-looking
White-eye, White-eye is just a plain old one-eye. It is, however, not that hard to be charmed by
White-eye, and even when we all are just looking for
Two-eye, every now and then a wish for
One-eye may still pop up.