Colour.

[dogoncouch]

we could also be told that fish are llamas. it still does not effect how are brain works it just changes how we react to others.

 

[Beonaam]

I know exactly what you mean... and it's fun to think about sometimes.
What if I somehow could see through yours or anybody else's eyes? Would I be seeing what I know is red? Or would it be something completely different, maybe a color you've never even seen before?

I'm not an expertise on the way our eyes connect to the brain, but my guess is that we would probably all see the same colour. The arrangement of the cones (the ones that help us see color) might be different, but maybe all of our brains tell us to process the stimuli it receives from the cones in a certain way so that we all see red as red and not anything else.

We may never now. But it's still fun to think about.

 

[Rdogg999]

do people with glasses see color diffrently than people without glases? just wonderin

 

[RutuliukaS2]

I been thinking about that when i was stoned ! but i was thinking about whole thinking , maybe everyoen sees diferent shapes that theyc all 'chair' or something .... this is creepy also

 

[megaman 2006]

Actually our pupils dilate according to how much light is hitting it. Lots of light means small pupils, little light means big pupils. Not how you explained it.

I know that, But when you're really interested in something, like if you go to a movie theater, your pupils WILL dilate. Light isn't the only thing to do with how large or small our eyes are. Drugs would have the same effect. I read that out of a rather interesting book on the human brain, so I doubt its false.

 

[Tiberias]

This is another one of those great mysteries, something we will never know, something that bends your mind.

Colour.

We could all see colour COMPLETELY differently. I'll try to explain my way of thinking, using a scenario.


There is a group of children sitting in a classroom.

The teacher puts a colour onto a board.

The children look at this colour, the teacher says "this colour is red".


Now, when the children look at the board, every single child could be seeing a completely different colour on that board, but they have learnt that the colour they see is "red".

Given how complicated and amazing the eye is, this would not be unlikely.

I'm not sure wether you will understand my reason, as I'm not sure I can explain it enough.

Let me know if you understand it.

So you're telling me that due to the learning process, everyone has associated colors differently but still everyone has the same meaning of which color is which. For example, my red is actually purple, but your purple is actually green. We look at an apple and we both say it is red. Why? We both have the colors associated with that. A color blind person would never know he was color blind if he was afflicted with it since birth. Anyways, this is an interesting thought. Good thinking. If only there was more of this here, I'd probably post more often.

 

[duellerslav]

yea that is very interesting, but i think that we all, except they who is colourblind see the colours in the same way

 

[1337_Byte]

I've thought of this before to lol, it's likely everyone perceives them similarly though, except for colorblind people. What happens when color is seen is the eye converting different wavelengths of light into visual representations for the brain.

 

[Uber Panda]

There is one reason why this is wrong, which i don't think anyone has thought of yet. The colour wheel. All the colours blend into one another. If a child was to see the colours differently then they would not blend into eachother, which means this senario would be known of if it existed.

Actually, there's no reason for this to prove it incorrect. It applies to every color, so the gradient would probably be the same, but placed differently in your mind.

And, I can easily prove this.

I don't believe in integers. Alright, so I'll hand you 0.00000000 etc but I don't believe in 0.
What I'm saying is that everybody is color-blind. Plz don't freak! lol. So, maybe you're 0.00000000000000003758987234876324% color blind, which means you would see things differently, therefore proving everybody sees color differently. Maybe you're even 1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% colorblind (1 googol-eth, lol, I love saying that), you'd still see things differently than me

 

[WinterDreamZ4]

Actually, there's no reason for this to prove it incorrect. It applies to every color, so the gradient would probably be the same, but placed differently in your mind.

And, I can easily prove this.

I don't believe in integers. Alright, so I'll hand you 0.00000000 etc but I don't believe in 0.
What I'm saying is that everybody is color-blind. Plz don't freak! lol. So, maybe you're 0.00000000000000003758987234876324% color blind, which means you would see things differently, therefore proving everybody sees color differently. Maybe you're even 1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% colorblind (1 googol-eth, lol, I love saying that), you'd still see things differently than me

People that are color blind don't see the difference in some colors. So what you are saying is wrong.

The colors of the rainbow as viewed by a person with no color vision deficiencies.

The colors of the rainbow as viewed by a person with protanopia.

The colors of the rainbow as viewed by a person with deuteranopia.

The colors of the rainbow as viewed by a person with tritanopia.

Source wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blind

 

[Loren]

Wow, I think this almost all the time, but if you think about it, its just that we learn things by being show that, I have also wondered, how can you be color blind? and if you are color blind, why doesn't that mean everyone else is color blind? (if you understand)

 

[C o W e R d]

This is another one of those great mysteries, something we will never know, something that bends your mind.

Colour.

We could all see colour COMPLETELY differently. I'll try to explain my way of thinking, using a scenario.


There is a group of children sitting in a classroom.

The teacher puts a colour onto a board.

The children look at this colour, the teacher says "this colour is red".


Now, when the children look at the board, every single child could be seeing a completely different colour on that board, but they have learnt that the colour they see is "red".

Given how complicated and amazing the eye is, this would not be unlikely.

I'm not sure wether you will understand my reason, as I'm not sure I can explain it enough.

Let me know if you understand it.

So, your saying that we could possibly see different colors, but yet learned the same colors?
Like, you just said we could've just learned the name of the color, but not see the same colors.
Weird, theirs only two types of seeing, seeing in color, or being color blind.
I highy doubt that when two other people see one color, one of the persons see a different color.

My opinion.

 

[C o W e R d]

Wow, I think this almost all the time, but if you think about it, its just that we learn things by being show that, I have also wondered, how can you be color blind? and if you are color blind, why doesn't that mean everyone else is color blind? (if you understand)

Well, it's just like a disability that someone has. Just like being blind, or deaf, or you can't taste anything[I would hate that]

I pretty much coverd what you asked. :]

 

[after]

i see 2 in the first one and 24 or 74 in the 2nd one

 

[Phatmat]

It is very possible indeed, though will always remain a mystery. Sythe, your response sounds very logical, however if that person has always grown up with knowing my 'red' to be their 'yellow' they would be very used to it. It would just be the 'normal' for them.

Though, I do believe that people do see colours (yes, I'm from Australia) the same, but we can never be completely sure.

- Phatmat.