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  2. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia. A person with synesthesia may associate certain letters and numbers with certain colors. Most synesthetes see characters just as others do (in whichever color actually displayed) but they may simultaneously perceive colors as associated with or evoked by each one. Synesthesia ( American English) or synaesthesia ( British English ...

  3. Purple Earth hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Purple culture of Haloarchaea (left) and isolated purple and red membrane components (right) The Purple Earth Hypothesis (PEH) is an astrobiological hypothesis, first proposed by molecular biologist Shiladitya DasSarma in 2007, [1] that the earliest photosynthetic life forms of Early Earth were based on the simpler molecule retinal rather than ...

  4. Visual perception - Wikipedia

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    Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment. This is different from visual acuity, which refers to how clearly a ...

  5. If You See a Purple Porch Light, This Is What It Means - AOL

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    It’s not the only color for a cause. Purple probably won’t be the only porch light color you’ll see. People use red porch lights to highlight women’s heart health. And blue porch lights ...

  6. Divine light - Wikipedia

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    Jyoti or Jyot – a holy flame that is lit with cotton wicks and ghee or mustard oil. It is the prayer ritual of devotional worship performed by Hindus offer to the deities. Jyoti is also a representation of the divine light and a form of the Hindu goddess Durga shakti. Ohr Ein Sof – in Rabbinic Judaism and Kabbalah, meaning the "Infinite Light."

  7. What's up with the mysterious purple streetlights at the ...

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    The science behind the white to purple light change. Purple street lights contrast with the red stop lights at the intersection of Hypoluxo and Jog Roads in Palm Beach County. LED lights are made ...

  8. Anthropic principle - Wikipedia

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    For the book by Nick Bostrom, see Anthropic Bias. The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, [1] is the hypothesis, first proposed in 1957 by Robert Dicke, that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations could happen only in a universe capable ...

  9. Divine illumination - Wikipedia

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    t. e. According to divine illumination, the process of human thought needs to be aided by divine grace. It is the oldest and most influential alternative to naturalism in the theory of mind and epistemology. [1] It was an important feature of ancient Greek philosophy, Neoplatonism, medieval philosophy, and the Illuminationist school of Islamic ...