Is there such thing as color....?

Question

becuase yes we can see color with our eyes, but dogs can see different colors and cats and ext. How do we know what colors are what the world really is.... i mean just becuase we see it that way doesn't mean thats the right way. What if really the worlds black and white but our eyes see it as all the colors possible.... i don't know.... your oppinion?

after seeing the second.....or was it the third answer i have to say.... we don't know for sure if we would all see the same.... maybe most people would becuase as you already know some people are color blind and do see differently....... do you know what i mean.

sorry i said it wrong.... i do believe in color but how do we know what color is right!!!

Answer 1

Color is just light in various WAVELENGTHS

light comes in various wavelengths, red is the longest wavelength we see with our eyes. of course there is infrared, a longer wavelength we can't see. violet is the shortest wavelength we see with our eyes... ultra violet is even shorter than that. So the waves keep going even if we can't see them. Scientists use tools called spectrometers to study waves of light, it is a more precise way of studying wavelengths.

So yes, no matter how you interpret it, even if you are color blind, there is still color, unless you are sitting in pitch dark, there are still waves of light bouncing around you... you just percieve those waves in your own way.

Answer 2

We have a 99% consensus of humans with vision that see the same thing as red, blue, green what have you...

It's true that your Blue experience might be my Red, and everytime we point at the Blue thing we say the same word.. but have radically different perceptions of it. As long as the perception stays the same.. is consistent with everyone elses definition of Red apples and red qualia (subjective states, if you will)... along with every other color or mixture... there is no great way to know.

But you want to know how the world "really" is...
Isn't that very dangerous to abstract the world from how we perceive it?

Do you think an un-conscious universe exists?
We may want to say "redness" is something we, as humans, see in an object.. but not dogs, or other creatures. We don't see ultraviolet, but moths do. Does that mean that color doesn't exist? On the contrary.. it must exist, as far as anything exists. Our conception of the known universe is limited to what we can know or reason by the senses. An invisible God could be sitting in front of a shaker-glass that contains the universe.. and we wouldn't know. Does that make our "delusion" of quantum physics, etc unreal?

Do you dream in color? -- if so, would you call that color real? independant of there Being an external world ...

All these arguments about wavelengths are really wrong. Instruments may be able to detect the frequency of red, and if you gave this machine to a color-blind person... they could pick out their clothes and match them surprisingly well, if you gave them a rulebook about which colors to wear together fashionably. They could remember the machine saying their umbrella is red. But to them, all they see is a shade of grey.

Red isn't reducible to photons. If you described every emotion and thing in the world that you've seen as red, a blind person will never know what it is. Because color is something only known through perception.

Answer 3

Color is something real that can be measured.
Color is transmitted through a particle called a photon. You can think of a photon as a little bundle of energy that emits a "frequency signal". Different photons have different energies corresponding to different colors. Humans can see within a frequency range and some animals see within another. Animals see different colors because they see different ranges and some can't see any colors at all because they're eyes don't have the proper "equipment" to do so. Some animals can only see black and white. Higher energy colors (light colors) seem brighter and lower energy colors (dark colors) seem darker.

Answer 4

Well, this is a tricky question. Every creature has its own perception of the world and its "colors," but we see the seven parts of the visible light spectrum. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. When light hits objects, the objects absorb all other colors and reflect what we see as its color. I hope that was clear enough. That is what humans perceive. Who is to say that if we discovered an alien race, they could have a much different perception of light and the visible light spectrum. That so far is what we know about color though.

Answer 5

Color, or the intensity is relative to the source of light. Go into any room, turn on the light. Now look at the amount of color in the objects that you see. Now turn off the light and look at those same objects. Contrast what you see now versus what you saw a moment ago. Color is relative. Take it a step further. Its nighttime and the light is off. Is there color? You be the judge.

Answer 6

If the world was just black and white and we saw colors in it randomly then we wouldn't agree upon what was red and what color looked like yellow. Different people see a color and they both know that it is blue or whatever color it happens to be. Therefore, we see colors and the world truly is colorful.

Answer 7

i think there is such thing as color, i just dont think dogs can see as well as us, we see black and white, just like then but we also see the colors that are in the rainbow.

but bees can see more colors than even us, they have colors for the different smells of flowers.

so yes i do think there is color, we may not see color the 'right way' but we deffinently do see some form of color

Answer 8

Be happy with what you've got. Some animals can't see colors ( some people can't ). If everything was a different color but we see it as we do, what would be the difference ? Enjoy what you have. Why worry that it may be something else ?

Answer 9

Color is really light vibrating in different wavelenghts, so that means that because of our cones which are specialized cells in our retina which in turn are photoreceptors contain special pigments that are light sensitive detect the different wavelenghts of light entering the eye they send a message to the brain which in turn translates the message into the colors that we see. That is why other animals see black and white because they don't have these cells.

Answer 10

doctors have proven this wrong by examining the eye,, namely the rods ad cones in the retina. the rods and cones contain special chemicals that only react to certain colors (red light, or blue light). all working eyes contain these chemicals and the same apparatus in the retina. one issue is how our brians perceive these colors. it could make sense that everyones brain can perceive diffrent colros in different ways, and that we all just grow with these colors assigned in our minds. psychologissts and doctors have disproven this by various experiments and MRIs and what not. in respect to perception of color, our brains, our eyes and even our genes for color vision are all the same, so it would be highly unlikely that my green is your purple. animals see differenly because their eyes and brains are wired differently and they have evolutionarily adapted to certain needs, some of which are not color vision. whats interesting thoguh is that many insects can see well into the UV spectrum. this fact expplains why certain bugs are attracted to pollinate certain flowers.

Answer 11

OMG I have totally always wondered that... how do we know who sees what. and how do they actually know that dogs are color blind. did the dogs answer questions or what??? and who is to say the the people who are color blind arent seeing the right colors. stuff like this drives me nutz! My favorite question is when i see red, is it the same red you see. or do you think red is blue, but all you ever saw when you learned red was blue. whos to say all of our eyes see the same.....