Is it possible that everyone was taght that that was a color and they actually saw a differnet color like it was red but to them it looked blue but was taght it was red?
2007-01-02 09:05:25 · 18 answers · asked by kev-O 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
My grandfather was color blind- he was an expert at the Rubik's Cube!
2007-01-02 09:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by hope 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You could call a color a different name, and may perceive it in a different way than someone else does (based on your memories, experiences, and perceptual acuity), but the ability to perceive a given color is based upon its wavelength, and how it is experienced by the cones in our retina and transmitted through our optic nerve into our brain.
To have what you say actually happen would require some sort of problem with the optical system - that is, theirs would have to be different from the "normal" human system. Of course the way in which humans have evolved to see colors is somewhat arbitrary (though for the most part specific colors being perceived in certain ways has survival value), and other animals see colors differently (or not at all). Human color perception is biologically based, and although the context may be different for every person, two people whose systems are functioning normally will see the same color.
If I had been taught that blue was red, then I would call everything blue "red," but would still see the same color everyone else saw when they said "blue." I would probably be corrected enough that I would learn the difference, because if I saw blue and red next to each other I would know they were not the same, even if I mixed up which was red and which was blue.
2007-01-02 09:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by waefijfaewfew 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have thought about this for hours at a time! Wow. I'm not the only one. What I've basically come up with is that while possible, it's improbable. Why? We all agree one color is red, and another is blue, but think of the color wheel. There are three primary colors that mix to make three secondary colors. It wouldn't work if my red was your green, because then my blue would be your orange or purple. And orang and purple (my red and blue) would mix to make my purple, your RED. And we all know that two secondaries do not make a primary. It could work if we were "lined up" with primaries, like my red being your blue or yellow. But, then again, we all have the same genome and its unlikely that we see in different colors.
2007-01-02 09:18:11 · answer #3 · answered by John Doe IV 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everybodies color preception is basically the same, but the tones may be a little different. At a science museum I went to they had several dots... One in the center, and about five all around of the same color in different tones... They ask that you point to the color that best matches the one in the middle, and different people pointed to different outside dots.
As far as seeing completly different colors, I don't think so... Blue is a calming color to everyone, and red is a bright color that hurts your eyes to everyone.
For the most part, we all share the same basic colors
But you never know, colors could be completely different... I cannot imagine any new colors that don't exist, but maybe blue is different for everyone yet still calming for everyone.....
2007-01-02 09:15:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When it comes to individual perception I believe that anything is possible. If you want to take the head-tripping metaphysicians at their word the entire universe could be merely a concept in your mind.
But that doesn't speak to the 'agreement' that we have all unconsciously made with each other. One of those agreements is that if I see red - then the red I'm seeing is probably the same red that everyone else sees. There might be some disagreement to the pigmentation or variations (is it scarlet, chartreuse, pink, etc.), but overall red is red. If we humans didn't have some kind of common ground this would be a very chaotic world.
FP
2007-01-02 09:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but like any thing else, there is a normal curve of distribution for the various shades of the same colors. This means that about 70% of people see only one standard deviation away from the mean of " red ". Those two and three standard deviations, or more away, may see more varied shades than the average.
2007-01-02 10:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is honestly possible. I once took a test that said I was red green color blind. But I have seen red and green all my life (or at least what I thought was red and green...see my point) I also play tennis where the courts are red and green or at least that is the color they appear to be! I am glad you asked this because I have always wondered myself!
2007-01-02 09:55:01 · answer #7 · answered by Al Bino 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't believe it is that extreme, but it is possible that people see shades of colors differently. Just as some people think a particular object is beautiful and others see it as ugly.
2007-01-02 09:11:25 · answer #8 · answered by Pepper's Mommy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well maybe not to that extreme. But we do see colors in slightly different shades. That's why some would say that a color is green-orange while someone else would say its orange-green.
2007-01-02 09:42:44 · answer #9 · answered by navdeepkaur 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
such a thing is possible. for instants i have a car that i see as blue ocean blue . that is a very light shade of blue . i ran printing press for a numver of years i can tell what colour i am seeing .
my friend looks at my car and says blue.
the ownership says green . most other people refer to the colour as green . i am sure the car is blue she is sure.
something is a foot there.
2007-01-02 09:09:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋