A new color has been created

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Understandable.

After looking at the study, I'd say "olo" isn't technically a new colour but rather a sensation experienced by a few people when this new laser tech selectively stimulated their M cone cells.

Colour isn't "real" anyway, as in we can't just invent a new colour without the discovery of a new wavelength of light or a completely new type of photoreceptor. My blue shirt isn't inherently "blue." It's made of materials that absorb most light wavelengths and then reflect the blue wavelengths back out. My eyes and brain interpret those reflected blue wavelengths as the colour "blue." This applies to all the colours we see. A blue object absorbs most wavelengths and reflects blue ones, a green object reflects green wavelengths, and so on.

Colour is a perceptual phenomenon, a construction of our visual system in response to the way objects interact with light. "olo" is not a new colour in the sense of a new wavelength of light existing in the physical world. In reality, it's just a phenomenon created by messing the M cones in a way that doesn't occur naturally.

New colour my arse. I also call BS on this one.
 
Considering humans have an average scale of 10million colours who gives a fuck about a slight tint.

Give me night, infrared or ultraviolet vision instead you science nerds. Alternatively throw in some echolocation, polarisation or electroreception and we're good to go.
 
That's just brain damage with extra steps
 
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Colour is a perceptual phenomenon, a construction of our visual system in response to the way objects interact with light. "olo" is not a new colour in the sense of a new wavelength of light existing in the physical world. In reality, it's just a phenomenon created by messing the M cones in a way that doesn't occur naturally.
Also a cultural phenomenon. There's a well-known study about how language influences the perception of colour, involving a Namibian tribe that uses the same word for blue and some shades of green. They classify other shades of green as completely different, even though to Western eyes the colours are almost the same.

On the left image, people from this tribe can immediately tell you which square is different, as to them it's a colour with a completely different name. But on the right image they have trouble telling them apart.

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Also a cultural phenomenon. There's a well-known study about how language influences the perception of colour, involving a Namibian tribe that uses the same word for blue and some shades of green. They classify other shades of green as completely different, even though to Western eyes the colours are almost the same.

On the left image, people from this tribe can immediately tell you which square is different, as to them it's a colour with a completely different name. But on the right image they have trouble telling them apart.

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Am I being tricked?
 
On the right wheel, people of this tribe would tell you the squares are all 'buru' but on the left wheel they can immediately see that the square in the same position as the blue(right) one is clearly 'dambu'.
That's just language though, I'm sure they can see the difference unless they're colour blind or a different species.
 
That's just language though, I'm sure they can see the difference unless they're colour blind or a different species.
No, they can't. Scientists have been studying them for decades, with the conclusion that language development goes hand in hand with the development of colour perception. To them, the image on the left has one very obvious different colour, while the colours on the right are very difficult to distinguish. They have a hard time pointing it out, so nothing to do with not having a word for it.

Have a read of some of the studies, it's really interesting. One theory I saw on a TV documentary about it is that because the only blue they ever see is the sky, it's just more useful for them to have a load of ways of distinguishing greens, for example to clarify sentences like "there's an antelope in the green bush, but don't throw a spear yet because my wife is in the green bush, and watch out for the lion in the green bush."
 
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