Is grass really green. I mean we identify it as green because we are looking at the same object....?

Question

but what if the way that I see green is actually the way that you see orange. How would we ever know considering that we have always identified them the same way?

Answer 1

Whatever the way u call the of grass or identify it, but the impact of it on ur brain would be same. If from childhood u would have learned colur green to be as orange, no matter ur brain will still percept it in that way.

Now if u want to say that ur brain will give perception of green to that of orange then for the first time u might attack on grass considering it as fruit but human brain has excellent learning ability from next time it will consider the smell from nose also in addition to past visual record.

Answer 2

Even if you were colorblind, universally, grass has always and will be displayed in a particular geometric manner (as art) and physically appear the same in general (with the diff variations on grasss differing minimally). We identify the street lights the same way to counter for this fact. Universally around the globe the set the light order Red, Yellow/Orange, Green to compensate for the colorblind people. And signs were created in a certain fashion - octagonal for warning and alert signs. It becomes conditioning as we grow older. Children will go through Piagets stages of development, where the child will use key items as markers for recognition. We don't identify grass soley by its color, rather something more apparent - the shape. Green can be applied for many things but shapes assign stronger cues.

Answer 3

I, too, have considered this before. No. There is no way to prove that what I see as green is also what you see as green. But why would we? When we say green, we do not refer to the actual color green, but our perception thereof. That is to say that I say green to refer to the color of grass. When I say green, you think of the color of grass. Whether the actual color is the same does not matter. It's a language issue. The color does not matter. As long as you know what I'm talking about and vise versa, language is doing its job.

That's not even considering that we are only receiving the light in the green area of the spectrum. To say that something is green is to say that on that light reflects off of it.

Answer 4

Data gathered for many, many years indicates that we, as humans, all see colors the same way, with exceptions of known sight problems such as forms of color blindness. Green is the same color to all of us, red is red, etc. As we are all from the same genetic tree, there is no reason to think we would see things so individualistically. And, there is no reason to think that color-sighted animals do not see the same colors as we do. The light spectrum is absolute. IT is safe to say that we all see the spectrum 'green' as the green we have come to know as the color of healthy grass.

Answer 5

Most people see traffic lights the same way. I don't think many people see the green light as orange.

Answer 6

I actually thought of that question before. There isn't really a way to prove it, I guess...I mean, your purple could be my red, and so on...