Dynamic Oppositional Symmetries for Color, Jungian and Kantian Categories

Do we have plasticity? Do we learn and build our language? It seems that our languages are very plastic and that we construct them, right? This is evident in the existence of various languages in the world. For example, J recently shared his interview with Catherine, which was translated into 11 different languages. Speakers of one language may not understand the others. But is this really the case? Let's discuss this issue using modern color theory.

Modern color theory traces back to Newton and his optics in 1704. He discovered that white light can be broken down into a linear spectrum using a prism. He also demonstrated that when beams of light from the red and blue extremes of the spectrum are mixed, we perceive shades of violet, magenta, and purple. These colors are not objectively present in the linear spectrum, but we subjectively perceive them as such. This challenges the linear structure of our color organization and introduces a circular structure, known as the color wheel, which is a contribution to Newton's modern theory of colors.

There are many interesting details about color theory that I must skip due to time constraints. However, the key idea is that we can organize our color world into three primary colors: red, green, and blue. These colors serve as an additive basis for all colors and their complements, which are magenta, yellow, and cyan, forming a subtractive basis.