For example, the color blue. I see blue and it's what I see as blue, but maybe what you see as blue really looks like what I see as purple or light blue or something. Yeah I have a lot of weird thoughts.
2006-06-19 05:33:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Not as sure about purple vs blue (although I too have wondered about this).
Here is an experiment you should be able to easily reproduce the results of. Pick a set of colors that we might agree on as "aqua" or "teal" or "blue-green". Then, FORCE a group of people to say whether each color is either blue or green. It would seem that we are all tuned a bit differently.
2006-06-19 05:39:38 · answer #1 · answered by sideshot72 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
One of the ways to test this is to hook up a couple dozen people to EEG machines (or the like) and present them with a couple dozen colors, and watching the nervous systems' responses, seeing which have similar and different.
Science (Well, psycoloy if that is really science) has always held to blue being the most 'relaxing' color. It historically is also the most liked color. But many people have other favorite colors. I've always wondered if those people see in their mind the same color of blue as those who like blue with different 'reality' colors.
2006-06-19 06:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by tesla_drummer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two issues here, human physiology and semantics. Stastically speaking, most people's eye will respond to a light stimuli in the same way as anothers, with a certain percentage of people having certain genetic deformities that cause color blindness. The issue of semantics is that even in the presence of wide variations in response to light stimuli we agree upon certain naming conventions when referring to a common object, for example, we both look at an apple and refer to it's color as red, regardless of the exact response it causes in our visual system.
2006-06-19 05:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes this has crossed my mind and it cannot be proven to eachother because even if my blue is purple i would always know that purple is blue so there is no way to compare and discover the truth.
now give me 10 points!
2006-06-19 05:39:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋