we are born with vision. ok to be 'correct', MOST of us are born with vision ok???
we learn that certain things are a certain color. like...THIS FONT IS BLACK. THIS BACKGROUND IS WHITE. etc. so we come to associate certain colors with their names.
but...maybe YOUR black is someone else's GREEN. see what i mean? we are taught names of colors, but no one can get in our brains and find out exactly WHAT wavelength of light we are perceiving.
well what if 'green' meant different things to us? it might, right?
2006-11-19 07:00:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I've wondered this many times. And, true, there is no way to tell. Yet, we also classify colors as different things. Yellow as "bright" blue as "sad". Pehaps this prooves we all see the same thing. Perhaps our classifications vary from person to person depending on what they see. We will never know.
2006-11-19 07:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Me-oh_my 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know what you are saying and have often contemplated the same thing. The human eye is able to respond to wavelengths from 400 - 700 nm (nanometres), and certain colours appear at certain wavelengths on the colour spectrum, and so humans would see the same or very similar colours.
(I spell colour with a "u" because I live in Canada, that's how we spell it here)
2006-11-19 07:08:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, our perceptions of color are maybe different. But we all learn the same conventions: what is green is green. I suggest you read the first chapter of An Anthropologist on Mars by Dr.Sacks, who talks about this. Fascinating. I guarantee it. http://www.oliversacks.com/mars.htm
2006-11-19 07:06:34 · answer #3 · answered by F.G. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of us are born with voices too... that way you can hold up a card that most people agree is black and ask a guy what color he sees, if he says GREEN than his perception is different, right?
oh yeah... its genius btw
2006-11-19 07:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sure we may perceive colors differently but what we all(Most of us is better) know is that blood is red and grass is green. so red is the color of blood(whatever it is actually) and green is the color of grass etc. then for normal people(with no vision deficiency) you can not say a certain color for one is green and for another is black.
2006-11-19 07:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by Ormoz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. I suppose that's it is possible. But when we are children and are learning colors, we probably identified colors by their names and someone would have told us if we didn't see the "correct" color. I don't know if this is what you were asking, I'm confused.
2006-11-19 07:12:10 · answer #6 · answered by BeautifulDevil 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah it might, but it isnt. and we have learned them the way we know them now. so it would be to hard.
2006-11-19 07:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all born with vision
2006-11-19 07:02:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No idea what u just said
2006-11-19 07:03:55 · answer #9 · answered by Kay 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that is why some people are colored blind..red is pink and so on
2006-11-19 07:04:32 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋