eli5: Why is it impossible to imagine new colors?
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Imagination is the act of combining things that you have already experienced or seen.
And that’s exactly why you cannot imagine new colors, because they are a closed set. No matter what colors you combine, you still remain in the original color spectrum.
Similarly:
-It’s the same reason you can’t imagine a 4th physical dimension: you can’t combine your familiar 3D directions to result in a 4D direction.
-You also can’t imagine new integer numbers because of this.
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