11/21/15 - "Arbitrary Colors, Their Selves" The natural identification of reality might be said to disclose itself in the specific recognition and realization of six distinct colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple(violet). What does that mean?? Why must reality express itself this way and no other? Why is it impossible to imagine any color outside (or differentiated) from this spectrum? Is the spectrum real, or does it simply represent the possibilities of some-"one"-'s imagination? By the stretches of my own mind, it would seem to tell me that these possibilities of color are real, and other possibilities of color can not exist. I can not conceive anything outside our color spectrum. This would be an "alien" to my sense of familiarity. But then, might we say, that the "possible" creates the "impossible"? We know all the colors that are possible in existence, and then any color that doesn't exist is "impossible". And we find that it is. No color is possible that lies outside our spectrum of possibility. But what is the real nature of those colors which are "possible"? What are the associations specific to the character of a given color? What does the color "mean", in being of its character? Is it possible, that in the spectrum of colors, we could derive and identify the meaning of life? These would be all the possibilities of such a meaning, specific to their source. No meaning exists but that which is represented in our colors. Meaning, then, finds its composite in the expression of a rainbow, but still must be broken into specific parts. Many questions occur to me because of this - If meaning must be essentially separated from itself, how does it exist as one whole thing? If each color were to represent an emotional state (as an example of association for "meaning"), what is the complexity of ways in which those colors (or emotional states) are activated? What "triggers" the color (or state of mind)? If I conclude myself that colors do, in fact, represent meanings, then I am left to contemplate those specific meanings... And why they must exist as specificities. |