Do we see the colours as each other?

Question

Do two people see the same colours exactly the same?How do we able see colour?

Answer 1

unless you are partially color blind you should be able to see the same colors. I have trouble distinguishing blue/purple. Also light green looks like yellow, teal looks blue. My gf likes to point out objects to me and ask me what color I see. See that green truck, what color is it??

Answer 2

Part of the retina of the eye called rods and cones are responsible for our colour vision. It's likely people will sometimes see different shades of colour because it depends on how well their eyes are working. Some people are colour blind.
For the human eye to see colour there must be light present. Light enters the eye and this is picked up by the rods and cones on the eye. A chemical reaction takes place, and an electrical message is sent along the optic nerve to the visual part of the brain. The brain then interprets this as vision.

Answer 3

Very simple question with very in depth answers. You can never know if people see things in the same way as there are only really 2 ways of recording the facts .
1 From a Brain scan and we know minimal amounts about that apart from sector response and timing of synapse etc.
2 From a description given by a person of what he sees. As the person has been trained/ taught to relate an event with a description the 'events/ description' of one person will differ from some one else even if they have been taught by the same person.
Colours are descriptions so no we don't see them but yes we do describe them the same.

More interestingly is white light absolutely all light or absolutely no light and can these states occur?

Answer 4

It is impossible to tell this. Our eyes work by receiving light waves that are reflected off of objects in the environment around us. Color is a property of these light waves. Once they pass through all of the complicated apparatuses of the eye they are encoded into a chemical signal and interpreted by the brain.

Since we humans have developed the ability to speak to one another and share our brain's interpretations using a labeling system of sorts, we can only know superficial details about how other people perceive the world. You and I don't really see the sky as "blue" but we look at the sky, have a common experience and label our perception as blue. What color you see as blue is up to your brain I guess.

Answer 5

And even between sexes color shifts, Women see variations in colours better than Men. It has something to do with women being the gatherers of the hunter/gatherer partnership.

Answer 6

The proteins in our eyes that react to certain wavelengths are the same for all humans. However, no one really understands how the brain interprets these signals, so it's possible that what's red to me may look like what I think of as blue to you

Answer 7

joe, I actually believe that what we see as colors differ from person to person. For instance Black to me is the absence of all light yet it may no, O never mind, I lost my train of thought, but thanks for the two points from across the pond.

Answer 8

It depends on your eyes. Every person doesn't have the same vision

Answer 9

first question: yes that's why we have crayloa for

2nd: theres a chemical reaction in the rods and cones that allows us to see color. look it up yourself.

Answer 10

Not really...
After a month I just realized in this morning, that my girl is black. And her color is more beautiful then any color I've seen..
I thought she was latin :>