Can someone explain this to me, because, its really messin with my head!?

Question

"What would you say, if i told you that there are colors, that earth doesnt even have, that you cant even imagine" can someone, depict something like this?

Answer 1

this issue is somewhat related to philosophical concepts. ^_^

we know only what we know, and we, of course, don't know what we don't know. philosophy generally states that to "know" something, we've got to experience it somehow. whether it be a personal experience, or the experience of someone telling us that thing, or what. thing is, "reality" for people is the collective experience of everyone. so anything that someone "knows" would mean an experience on that person's part, and that constitutes the existence of the thing.

what about colors that we don't know about (or perhaps that we can't think about)? let me put it in a somewhat related context.

we know that unicorns, for example, do not exist. but unlike "unknown colors", we can actually think about unicorns. generally, we have an idea of what unicorns are [supposed to be]. why is this so?

generally, this is possible, because we "know" about horses. we "know" about horns. a unicorn is basically an abstraction of our knowledge of horses and horns: we just put the two together.

same with aliens, for example. try to think of your own version of alien - what will it look like, what can it do? you'll find that, with a little thinking and perception, everything about your alien is anchored to something real. whether that be arms, tentacles, six eyes, telepathy, gooey acid-spitting guns or what.

so what about colors? the same thing works here. we would know of orange if we haven't seen it yet because we know of red and yellow, and with a little tinkering, orange can be derived.

to clinch this very lengthy explanation, basically, colors we can't even imagine don't exist, because they CANNOT exist for us. the mere characteristic of not being able to derive from everything we know, and STILL not come up with a "new color" would just mean that, at least for the reality of human beings, there does not exist a color outside of our spectrum.

Answer 2

Definitely!! My questions today, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=An0N4k.cMVXBZmILyea5lqPsy6IX?qid=20060711061029AAazBKa and http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AikzWRfI1i5ngAdZTlewPCnsy6IX?qid=20060711062241AAaizbZ were an attempt to get an idea of how humans perceived colors. My framing was in relation to how can a computer know what color is but the questions can also be applied to your question.

How do I know that when both of us are looking at the same thing at the same time under the same circumstances that what I am perceiving as blue or red or some other color is what you are perceiving? Honey bees see ultraviolet. It is not inconceivable that another entity may have some way of seeing something totally different than we do. It is also conceivable that we have not seen all things that exist. We only know and can extrapolate from what we know. What is it that we have never experienced? Do we even have the mentality or faculties to recognize it when it does happen or is there for us to perceive or measure?

Answer 3

it is plausible she may have used you to get to the chum or per chance became dissatisfied that you went to the marriage. both way, don't worry a lot about it. If she'll ditch you over some thing kin-appropriate, some thing you had to attend, then she's showing herself as a administration freak and a egocentric individual. you're better off with out her. If she's flirting including your chum to make you mad, turn the tables on her and easily tutor no emotion. do not let her video games dissatisfied you because it truly is what she needs. quickly, she'll understand her sport backfired on her.

Answer 4

There's a whole range of colours right here on earth now that we can't see or comprehend or imagine as we don't have the right eyes or the right brain for it.

I think that's enough to be going on with for now without trying to imagine non-existent colours - real ones can mess with your head too!

Answer 5

Yes, I understand because earth is only a tiny piece of a giant universe. There's so much more than this and we can't possibly imagine it because our brains don't have the intelligence or knowledge to do it.

Answer 6

There are only two true colors. White and Black. The colors that you see comes from the sun's reflection off either color. When you turn off the light's wht do you see? Nothing but when the light is turned on the light reflects mny colors!

Answer 7

Colors only exist because we percieve them. If there are colors we can't see, (such as infra-red and ultra-violet) another creature might be able to. The electro-magnetic spectrum is way bigger than that tiny chunk we call the visible spectrum, or classic rainbow.

Answer 8

Colors are different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. There's ER beyond what we can "see" as light.

I think the person is either taking interesting substances of some kind or is messing with your head.

Answer 9

oh yeah...unimaginary colors. For instance there's blojeruscks. It's a mixture of two colors, blokjis and sckriks.

Answer 10

I'd flip and waste 5 points asking a question similar than this one.