when you go to school you are told this colous is red this is blue but colour like taste is something u cnt explain u say oh red is the colour of blood but when u look at red u cud perceive red as my purple because we can never no what colour people rlly see can we?!
2007-07-27 08:13:27 · 11 answers · asked by BlondeyX 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
a tree falling in a forest even if there is someone there doesn't make a noise. it creates vibrations, that are then translated to electrical impulses that our brains can recognise as sound, so no... good point about the colour of colours. think it would be a perception thing.
2007-07-27 12:15:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our eyes perceive the visible spectrum of frequencies as colours, everything else is infra-red or ultra-violet. The only way we can know if what I see as red is the same as what you see as red is by its associations such as the feelings produced by it. Each colour has an associated feeling, musical note, chakra etc.. In the song 'Purple haze', every time Jimi Hendrix sang the words 'purple haze' he played a note that is associated with the colour purple.
It is us that make the grass green because what we see as green is not a quality of the thing perceived. We interpret the light that is reflected off an object. If we see something as green, it reflects the frequency green and absorbs the other frequencies - blue and red (magenta / purple).
2007-07-29 12:24:13 · answer #2 · answered by Holistic Mystic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure why this is R&S.
But there are at least pointers that we see colours the same.
One is the processing of secondary colours.
The primary colours for light (not paint) are Red Blue Green
The secondaries:
Red+Blue, Purple, seen as a reddy-blue.
Blue+ Green, Turquoise, seen as a bluey-green
Red + Green... Hmm? Yellow.
Seen as a reddy-green? No. We can't conceive of a reddy-green.
We all process the secondary colour yellow much more like a primary colour.
It is one piece of evidence that colour is hard-wired in.
Linguistics, and the handling of colour in different languages is a separate issue.
Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet.
What's indigo doing there? There are at least two reasons, but that gets more complicated.
2007-07-27 08:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It matters not. The wavelength(s) measure out the same either way.
The one difference in perception we can be certain of is between male and female. Men perceive about four or five colors, and everything else is just a lighter or darker shade of those. Women perceive about 36 billion shades, and have a separate name for all of them.
2007-07-27 08:21:02 · answer #4 · answered by Diminati 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generally, people agree when a colour is pleasant and when one is yucky or clashes with another, so probably we do all see things in much the same way.
2007-07-27 09:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by boojumuk@yahoo.co.uk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our eyes all work the same way. The only exception is colour-blind people, but their sight is consistent within the group.
I see your point, but your example is flawed.
2007-07-27 08:17:48 · answer #6 · answered by Velouria 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As difficult as your question is to read, I have always thought this same thing.
Now, is there a question about religion or something in there?
2007-07-27 08:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by Spencer Y 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is a personal conception connected with some names. Kinda of belief indeed.
2007-07-27 08:22:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but when you sober up it looks red again doesn`t it ?
2007-07-27 09:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by yahoobloo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rather the same as determining blonde and brunette, eh?
2007-07-27 08:22:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋