[MD] From each... to each

[craigerb at comcast.net]

 [Arlo] 
> Pirsig had also written, "Similarly, Choctaw, Tunica, the Keresian Pueblo 
> Indians and many other people make no terminological distinction between blue > and green." Was this because no one, biologically, among these tribes had the 
> necessary receptors in their eyes to make this distinction? According to 
> Pirsig, it is because their culture did not value such a distinction, and so 
> the language did not reflect it, and so those assimiliating the culture do not 
> value it. 

This is a great counter-example to Arlo's theory.  Show a blue card & a green card to a member of one of the afore-mentioned tribes.  Then give them a deck of such cards & tell them to separate the cards that look most like the first from those that look most like the second.  He or she will be able to do so DESPITE NOT HAVING A DIFFERENT WORD FOR THE TWO COLORS NOR THE CULTURE'S VALUING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEM.  Why?  Because he or she experiences the difference in color.
Craig