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Before we can even name a hue, we have felt it as a sensory reality in our bodies. Blue and green affect us differently from
Feb 20,2021
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Before we can even name a hue, we have felt it as a sensory reality in our bodies. Blue and green affect us differently from red and yellow. As Kym Maclaren argues in an essay on embodied perception, “That the stimuli of short duration produce an effect in in persons’ bodies before a colour is explicitly sensed, suggests that it is our sensitive-perceptual motor body, and not a knowing, thinking subject, that sense colours.” Colour acts in us.
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