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From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Blindsight

In article  [email protected] (John Werner) writes:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Gordon Banks) wrote:
>> 
>> Explain.  I thought there were 3 types of cones, equivalent to RGB.
>
>You're basically right, but I think there are just 2 types.  One is
>sensitive to red and green, and the other is sensitive to blue and yellow. 
>This is why the two most common kinds of color-blindness are red-green and
>blue-yellow.
>

Yes, I remember that now.  Well, in that case, the cones are indeed
color sensitive, contrary to what the original respondent had claimed.
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