Jacke (Jack) Wilson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Jacke (Jack) Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's that whole question about whether we can ever really know what yellow looks like to someone else or red or green or blue.
We kind of agree on it, but we're not inside each other's minds.
So how do we know exactly what those colors appear to be?
to be to other people.
And then there's another question of how a whole culture, a whole society could be colorblind, and then what?
Their offspring someday suddenly started perceiving color a few hundred years later?
How would that even happen?
I know evolution could do it, but in just a
In a thousand years?
I doubt it.
But I also tend to think that we might overestimate just how significant it is that Homer doesn't mention something.
You could probably read 10 novels by some author and not encounter any smells.
Does that mean that the era when that author lived had nothing scented or that people, their noses couldn't smell things?
Let's say only two novels survive from 2026, and 2,000 years from now, the readers only get two novels from the whole 21st century, and neither one happens to mention a cat or a dog.
Would you expect the reader to say, well, I guess they didn't have cats or dogs back then, or weeping willow trees, or sugar, or sweetness itself?
They couldn't taste anything, apparently.
Because it's not in these books.
Of course you wouldn't think that, hopefully.
But I do like the arguments these scholars fell into.
Some said, hey, guess what?
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