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No, it has not. It is easy to understand.

In which case it should be easy for you to explain, yes?

If you mean at scientific level no. But the complexity is inherent in the system, and the simple explanation is that problems get exarcebated since people willfully ignore this fact and act as if it does not exist.

I was downvoted for having a different opinion.

Let me dare an explanation. People want to feel safe by siding with the majority on the premise it increases survivability. It is a local minimum. The majority likes to side blindly with "dominant animals" aka pocket-sizedd Messiahs who are afraid to lose dominance and this is how democracy dies and incomprehensibility becomes the new norm.

Easy?

As easy as it would be to explain the color blue through text.

Challenge acccepted:

Blue light is defined as roughly 380nm-460nm range of wavelengths in electromagnetic radiation, however the human eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450nm-495nm. Objects coloured blue typically reflect or diffuse this range of wavelengths more efficiently than others wavelengths, rendering these objects the appearance of the color blue.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum

I don't think that will help a person who was born blind know what blue means to people with sight.

I beg to differ, on a technical level electromagnetic radiation can be perceived as a physical force, similar to the sensations felt by an MRI machine. Your counter point appears to be around the emotions blue, or other colours, convey which is actually easier to explain than what a colour actually physically is. We use words to convey emotions all the time and to describe blue, adjectives like calm, cool, cold, sad, open, broad, easy, etc. etc. can be attributed to the colour blue.

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