GabrielDuquette comments on How is your mind different from everyone else's? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2011 04:10:05PM *  4 points [-]

The ones for hours in the day and months in a year are circles.

Same here. The months have colors, too:

  • January - whitish gray
  • February - bluish purple
  • March - pale green
  • April - greenish yellow
  • May - dark blue
  • June - yellowish green
  • July - yellow
  • August - russet
  • September - green
  • October - red with gold highlights (New England foliage?)
  • November - brown
  • December - grayish white

Years, according to placement in decades:

  • '01 - grayish white
  • '02 - red like dried blood
  • '03 - light green
  • '04 - purple/blue
  • '05 - black
  • '06 - different shades of brown
  • '07 - yellow
  • '08 - forest green
  • '09 - 2009 was pinkish, 1999 feels like several colors at once
  • '00 - different each time, but always very dark
Comment author: Cthulhoo 05 December 2011 04:43:50PM 1 point [-]

Although the color matching is completely different from mine, it's interesting to know that this kind of trait is not totally uncommon. Any guess about what's originating it?

Comment author: Morendil 05 December 2011 06:15:44PM 4 points [-]

If you're like me, you played with cube blocks as a child with colored numbers on them. I wonder how we'd go about testing that hypothesis.

Comment author: Cthulhoo 05 December 2011 06:48:31PM 3 points [-]

I honestly don't remember, but it's definitely a possibility. About testing this hypothesys... well we could create an army of baby clones and when they grow up we can still use them to conquer the world ;)

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2011 04:51:30PM 2 points [-]

There are seasonal aspects -- the whitish grays and grayish whites of winter and the foliage red of October. And in 2009 I wore a lot of electric pink in my wardrobe. But these examples don't feel at all like robust evidence, so I guess my answer is no.