Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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Ep116 " What is Color? Part 2: Why royals wear purple"
37 minutes Posted Aug 11, 2025 at 10:00 am.
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Are there new colors you could see? And why are they impossible to imagine before you've seen them? Can you lose your color vision? And what does any of this have to do with linguistic color terms, why the military likes colorblind people for a particular task, and why Eagleman suggests that the cultural history of Thailand was influenced by one single, unknown neurodivergent?