What makes a colour a colour is the reflection of light boucing off a surface, but also absorbing some of that light. Giving different heights and eyesight and the fact that we are all taught to label what we see a certain colour eg 'green as grass', hypothetically, what if what I considered to be green was the same shade that you consider to be purple?
2006-10-03 13:16:23 · 7 answers · asked by kittycat_cc14 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Visually, our sensory input is processed by the mind before we actually see it. So we do not actually see the same color.
Color blind people for example do not see them like normal people. Albeit, they are not normal, but how many people have perfect vision? Moreover, we do not even see with the same eyes, so that will also throw another spin into the process.
The fact that we do not see what the sensory input tells us is another give away. Most people have two eyes, yet we see one picture, strange isn't it?
2006-10-03 13:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by : ) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People may well perceive things a little differently, but I think the largest factor in a case like this is that the eye is very complex and there is only one way for it to work properly. Almost all (adult) human eyes are about the same size, contain fluid of the same density, the same transparency, etc. Plus, we can objectively measure the wavelength of light passed by a certain filter, etc. Eye specialists will use precise color measurements to determine whether a person is color blind or not. With the standardization of color sources that is now going on (LED traffic lights, which by the nature of the atoms in their crystals can ONLY emit one specific color of light), anybody who mistook green for purple would soon be discovered.
There is a philosophical viewpoint called solipsism, which says that objective reality does not exist, and the individual creates the world around him by the way he perceives it. This seems to relate to what you were asking.
But there is an objective reality. People who think they can fly and jump off buildings are in for a rude shock. People who are attacked by harmful microorganisms cannot make themselves well by biofeedback alone. It is all very nice and individualistic to say "You may think that is green, but it's really purple," but that attitude is more of a detriment to those who go against the consensus than it is to those who adhere to it.
2006-10-03 14:33:38 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Colour like beauty is in the eye of the beholder
2006-10-03 14:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We don't necessarily see the same colors. The reason for this is because "color" is nothing more than different rates of vibration.
2006-10-03 13:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by RC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weirdly we don't see the same color, once my friend asked to my other friend if a purple box was pink, she really tought it was pink eventough it was clearly purple.
2006-10-03 13:28:00 · answer #5 · answered by simfr21 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WHEN WE "LABEL" COLOURS WE NAME THEM BY THE WAY WE WERE TAUGHT. THE QUESTION IS NOT, "DO WE ALL SEE THE SAME COLOURS," BUT ARE THE COLOURS THAT WE SEE ARE THE SAME AS YOU DEFINE THAT COLOUR.
2006-10-03 13:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by lalahappybunny 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we dont see the same color
2006-10-03 13:25:32 · answer #7 · answered by hector 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋