different preceptions?

Question

Do you think that other peoples brains work differently? Say if i saw the color red, and the same thing was blue in your head, which of us would be wrong? Do You think any of us see the physical world the same as the person next to you.

Answer 1

A perception is nothing more--or less--than a physical sensation of taste or sight, etc., that necessarily is an object of cognition. What we do not have cognition of has not been "sensed."
But it is the brain that has the cognition, not the organ of sense. The organ has the sense; the brain has the cognition.
Then, it is up to the mind to make sense of the cognition. If you see red and I see blue, either we define them differently, or the brain's cognitive powers are awry in one brain. But technology can measure the wavelenths of colors now, and can prove which is which. When my son was 8 he swore that everything "sour" was instead "bitter." I could not convince him his definitions were wrong.
Do we "see" the world the same way? I don't think you mean "optically." We all have eyes. But do our brains all see identically? No. Some people actually see colors as musical notes, or hear musical notes in colors, just as one example.
If you mean philosophically, the answer is no, or we would all agree on one philosophy.

Answer 2

Depends on the portion of people who see that color as red or blue. If most of them see it as red then it is most likely to be red. No, we all do not see the world the same way as the person next to you. We all have different visions. Some one might be near sighted or far sighted for example. Also someone might be partially color blind. That's where that 20/20 vision comes in. That is considered most common. Average vision they might say. I have contacts and right now one fell out some time ago so I only have one good eye and one bad eye. One sees far and clear, the other sees close but sees blurs in the distance. And I also know people that are color blind and I still don't understand his vision. So yes we do all see differently but that extremely different. So it's all close to the same....almost.

Answer 3

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

i think about that also, but if we saw the same colour differently, you seeing blue as i would see red, but we both call it "blue" ...there is no way to know what the other is seening...is that clear as mud?
and i don't think we all see the physical world the same.

Answer 5

Neither would be wrong.

I wouldn't know how often that happens with colors, but think about when a man and a woman tries to decide which movie to see. She may wan't to see something romantic, and so does he. However her idea of "romantic" bears NO resemblance to his. He wants to see Saw III and she want's to see Terms of Endearment. And neither want's to give up their position about who's right on what's more romantic. think about that one!

Answer 6

Just check the universe from a different angle and see the difference....each person is in dept and perception a universe in itself

Answer 7

It is the human mind that colors "What IS".