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Dorocche t1_iug09yc wrote

Reply to comment by 86BillionFireflies in Is the eyesight of small animals like mice and snakes as poor as ours would be if our retinas were the size of theirs? by AbouBenAdhem

How do we know that the shrimp doesn't do that? We can't observe their qualia obviously.

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86BillionFireflies t1_iuhghij wrote

We can do (and have done) experiments to determine how well they can distinguish one color stimulus from another, and they perform worse than humans (and worse than other animals with true color vision).

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