Do you believe that i can e.g see a colour i call blue that you see as red but also call blue?

Question

eg;- i see a colour i call red but you see another colour to what i see, still u call it red

Answer 1

Yeah.

ie - I see an animal that I call a dog, All my life peope refer to this animal as a dog so thats what I call it.

If the animal was actually a cat, everytime I saw a cat, i would say 'what a lovely dog'. Slightly different in a way I guess, but what you brain is telling you is the colour you see is commenly known as blue so thats what you call it - there is no physical way that can determine that it is anything but what you see, but with a cat and dog scenario its easy to retrain because they look physically different.

A blob of colour is a blob of colour - you eye - brain message is deciding what it is called based on what you have been taught for that blob. Colour blindness isnt it?! Orange and brown is a tricky one too!!

Same difference. Kind of. A bit anyway!! lol! Confused yet??

Answer 2

No, I do not. Red is red, blue is blue etc, we all see it as the same.

I disagree with the people saying it is what you are taught that you believe.
If someone saw the sky as red yet they were taught (correctly) that it was blue this would get noticed early in their life because they would call every red object blue.

Extreme scenario: someone is hidden away all their life, taught that green is in fact orange, then let out into the real world aged fifty. After the initial arguments, It wouldn't take long for that person to discover that green is green and orange is orange, simply through communication. It would be like learning a new word or phrase.

Consider this:
Thousands of people from different countries look at a plain blue picture. Each provides a word in their language for what colour it is. I can bet that no matter how many people, and from what country, all words if checked in the relevant dictionaries would translate to blue.

We can give a colour many labels but essentially still see the same thing.

The only exception would be colour blindness, but through communication, that person would learn that they see differently to others and adapt accordingly.

Answer 3

Yes.

There's times when I'm looking at a colour I'd call Purple but my partner would say was very definitely Blue. We're both looking at the same colour but seeing it differently.

Colours are in some ways learnt - I've learnt that grass is green, but the way I see that colour may be totally different from how you see it. We'd both still call it green though. Similarly, bananas are yellow, the sky is blue, tomatoes are red, because that's the words we've learnt to describe them, no matter what shade we actually see.

Answer 4

Well that's the beauty of the enigmatic thing we call life. We don't know if your perception and mine are completely different. I look at a tree and see the leaves are green, but that's because when I looked at that colour as a kid, my mum said "that's green!" You may have seen pink leaves on the tree, you learned the word is green. No one can be sure if we experience everything the same way. It's one of life's great mysteries.

We probably do see things completely differently anyway. After all, we all find different people, smells, tastes, textures, and music attractive. This indicates differences in our preferences, that may or may not be guided by differences in pereception.

You're probably right, but we'll never know.

Answer 5

you won't believe how many times i've tried to explain that to some people and they just think i'm crazy. It is a definite possibility, even with taste. obviously anyone will disagree cause they see the colour blue it's blue, when you call the colour blue the colour you see is actually the colour he knows as red. damn!!

Answer 6

This is Great!!! I use to ask the same questions do people precieve things the same! I'm sure if you raise a kid and teach it that hot is cold and cold is hot! they would be messed up!

But if your not sure what that person see's then it is there perception... After asking a ton of people on this no one really has a clean cut answer..
so in that regard I am going to say not very likly unless they has some sort of health issue! one way to find out is to get your list of colors and have everyone say the color! if everyone gets red and it's red then chances are they see it the same!
but for real non of us will ever truly know.. just the best educated guess!
good luck and keep up this sort of thinking and profound questions!
Very nice!

Answer 7

I used to think about this a lot. In the end I decided it didn't matter at all because in the end it makes no diifference in the way we interact with each other. If say I saw the sky as the colour you see blood and vice versa as long as we had the same name for what we saw neither of us would ever know. Also most of what we see is in black and white - only the middle of our field of vision is in colour the rest is only "seen" in colour because the brain adds the colour in itself.

Answer 8

I've often thought about this question. It's impossible to know that what two people call "red" is the same color to each of those people. Perhaps we see completely inverted colors, but we are raised to know what the names of those colors are so we have that idea in our heads.

To clarify for other people:
Say, for example, that there is an orange wall. It is the color that you know as orange. Some random guy walks up to it and sees that color that YOU call "blue". He, however, has been raised his entire life to know that what he sees as what you call "blue" should actually be called "orange", so he sees the wall and says that it is orange.

The same sort of thing is possible with all senses. How do we know that what tastes like broccoli to me may not taste like oatmeal to you? Perhaps the reason people only like certain foods is that some foods ACTUALLY TASTE DIFFERENT to different people; e.g. shrimp literally tastes like poop to some person.

Answer 9

Your retinas are unique. Most people who can't see red can't see green either, because of the way that reflective colour works. Although how you perceive red to be blue is beyond me, any chance you could explain the physics of this?
Red things appear red because of the properties of their surface; they absorb the green wavelength of light, so they appear red.
So how on earth can something that 'is red' appear blue? We have the same rods and cones in our eyeballs, what evidence do you have to suggest that we are all different?
Are your ears also unique, do you hear music differently, or speech? If I ask you to sing note 'C', what do you sing?
Of course we all percieve the same thing, we all have the same equipment and the choir or a bunch of drunks around a piano can all sing the same song!

Answer 10

Yeah that's what colour bindness is. Someone that is clour blind may see the colour differently but because they were told as a child that it was called red that is what you would call it. But to everyone else the colour would look different.