gutfounderedgal

gutfounderedgal t1_je09o5q wrote

For fiction: Waterstone's on Gower and Torrington and at Picadilly -- both have great literature sections. Note the store at Picadilly can be chilly so wear a sweater. Foyles is great too. Take some books and head to the top floor to look through them over a coffee and pastry. They have slightly different stock. Also, not yet mentioned is London Review Bookshop on Blury Place right across from The British Museum -- they too often have some odder/interesting works of fiction; small cafe inside.

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gutfounderedgal t1_iudj7p0 wrote

The seeing of bands of color is actually more about the human retina and cones. As such the cones are more sensitive to particular wavelengths of electromagnetic energy (for brevity we call these RGB, the perception of yellow is the RG both being stimulated) and less sensitive to other wavelengths. At this level it does not involve the brain/language as implied by this post. Obviously categorizing and naming colors is the brain activity; as is the opponent process, but that's not particularly relevant to the retinal activity that "creates" the bands.

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