the color we see as red, is it really red?, or we just learned to call it red. perhaps we see green and call it red, just because thats the way we learned it. perhaps what I see red others just might see blue or yellow and also learned to call it red. but it's not.
2006-10-09 10:16:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You've got it!
We've all learned a common classification scheme for various wavelengths of light received by our eyes. In this sense, wavelength is objective, so it doesn't matter what I "see" as Green. As long as my eyes are capable of discerning the Green wavelength, I've been trained to call it Green.
We have no way of knowing what each of us actually "perceives."
Some of us have a more sensitive apparatus for sorting out different wavelengths than other.
2006-10-09 10:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by entropy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What we see as red, green or whatever color is that color by definition. So, since the majority of us look at Red and say, that's red, we have collectively associated that color with that word. that's how the color is defined -- along with other things like wave length, lumiocity, etc. etc.
We actually see a whole spectrum of colors -- the "visible range" -- hence the name. We can't see ultraviolet or infrared since our bodies aren't able to recognize them for a variety of reasons.
2006-10-09 10:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by dapixelator 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok what have you been smoking? If everyone knows that RED LIGHT at a traffic signal light is RED..then that is what they associate with that colour...whether they are colour blind or not. I'm sure we all learned our primary colours in grade school and if there were any abnormalities our teachers would have picked it up then...and when you get your eyes examined..you know the little bubbles and numbers you see (or don't see) within them?
2006-10-09 10:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no answer but I have always wondered that myself...what if the color red looks different to me than the color red looks to you!
2006-10-09 10:26:27 · answer #4 · answered by Stasia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is so funny you feel that way becucase me and my friends have always said that, and the fact of the matter is its really the same with words, and numbers we were taught these things that are what they are, and that why I have alot of problems with church and the bible becuase again the same thing, so I just beilve from my heart, and so on!..
2006-10-09 10:19:30 · answer #5 · answered by Christine O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i see what you are saying, that is true with everything though, you could use a telephone, and call it a telephone because that is the way we learned it. if as a baby we learned to call it a frog, then it would be known as a frog, and we wouldn't know what a "telephone" was.
2006-10-09 10:20:08 · answer #6 · answered by DevynFTW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mainly blends of primary colors, like red and blue
2006-10-09 10:22:30 · answer #7 · answered by stop12345now 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is has no physical meaning because there is no experiment in principle that can resolve the issue.
2006-10-09 17:05:10 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is an issue adressed by a couple of philosophers. The possibility of relevant perception.
2006-10-09 10:20:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We see colors as they really are.
2006-10-09 10:25:27 · answer #10 · answered by dreamer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋