I have always wondered are the colors that I see and know by their names the same colors that you see? For example if I see something and say it's blue and you see the same thing and say it's blue, is your blue possibly the color red that i see but we have all been taught that the colors we individually see are called what we all call them - like if a teacher held up a card and everyone saw a different color but she said it's blue so we learned that the color we see is blue. So if you understand what i'm getting at here i'd like to know your opinion on this one, i've pondered this for a long time.
2007-01-11 13:55:58 · 6 answers · asked by poo hat 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If that were true... traffic lights wouldn't work. My green might be your red and so on... so then there would be accidents all the time. A simple test would be to have someone choose their color 'blue' out of a box of colored cards. If we actually saw different colors then everyone would be pulling different colors from the box.
2007-01-11 14:16:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you're saying -- that in itself scares me.
I told a friend (just BS-ing around) that there is no such thing as truth -- only the perception of truth. We all react to what we percieve to be true. It doesn't matter whether it was true or not because the reaction is the reaction. So truth is relative, and so is the color blue.
Question for you: do great minds think alike or are we both just thinking waaaaay to hard? ;)
2007-01-11 22:07:01 · answer #2 · answered by Christy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've wondered almost the same thing - not quite as in depth as you though.
Are colour blind people really colour blind?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if we all see colours slightly differently... we could all have different grades of colour blindness for all we know.
A friend of mine was severely electrocuted when he was 17, the side effect of which was loss of being able to see colour. Everything for him since his accident is in shades of grey and greeny grey!
I guess it's one of those things we'll never really know, but have fun pondering.
Anyhow - I like the colours I see. Strangely enough my electrocuted friend does too! (even though he can remember what colours used to look like)
>I'm now fading away to the music of Twilight Zone< ....... (& wondering if it sounds the same to you as it does me!) LOL what have you started??
2007-01-11 22:15:56 · answer #3 · answered by riffyxraff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a color is a color no mater what. If it's blue, it's blue. If it's green it's green.
2007-01-11 22:03:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've actually pondered that, too! And, yes. I think it is very plausible. Perception and mass training.
2007-01-11 22:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by What, what, what?? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i used to think about that shitt alot, but i try not to now, it hurts my head. and i just dont give a ****. does it really matter?
2007-01-11 22:06:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋