In a world of colour blind people is the person who can see red/green crazy as these colours don't 'exist'?

Question

http://www.moillusions.com/2006/04/color-blindness-test.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daltonism

Answer 1

Well we do tend to think someone is crazy if they 'see' things no one else can.

Still, humans have long been aware that dogs could hear and smell things things they could not

So our REAL requirement is that the 'talent' is demonstrable on some pragmatic level. If our red/green viewer always seems to know which apples are ripe, we tend to accept it.

If the guy who talks to angels always seems to know the future, we call him a seer. If the voices tell him to make a hat of aluminum foil, we call him crazy.

Answer 2

Let me answer you with a parallel question.

In a world of normal people as we know it, don't people who can see the paranormal exist?

Of course, at least one does! Scientific studies bear this out. For the paranormal, which seems spiritual, is inherent in human nature

And the converse should also be true.

If a person can see colors, in a color-blind world, that phenomenon cannot be labeled as exceptional or that person, insane. For the behavior can be atavistic or genetic mutation.

Answer 3

Well that is how it works for hearing voices and seeing stuff other people dont hear and see at the moment - unless you can convince everybody that you are a spiritual ambassador.

But then you start to get a powerful group of outsiders who can turn the tables. Anybody acn deem anybody else crazy if they have the power to create reality for others.

Answer 4

Wow! this is like describing gentle to a individual blind from start. Or writing volumes of books to describe the flavor of salt to a individual who's in no way tasted it. Or imagining the sound of one hand clapping. So i assume this is something you could no longer do.

Answer 5

Great question!!

Yes, our reality is limited to the test of consistency...... we have no other means to determine the truth. Since in the color-blind world, everyone would be seeing or recognizing no color whatsoever, the odd person who does see colors would be thought to be afflicted by hallucinations.... yes, insane in other words and may even be kept in isolation so as not to disturb or confuse others with non-existent and imaginary ideas of color!!

Answer 6

I can't believe some of the answers...such narrow-minded people!
Of course he/she would be considered crazy. I have for a very long time believed that those we call insane are those who perceive a world we either can't see or refuse to acknowledge, which brings into question the very nature of reality. Is there an objective reality or is reality relative to perception?
Marvelous question.

Answer 7

They do exist, a color blind person just can't see as many bandwidths as most people can.
That is kind of like saying that people who can hear are crazy because sound doesn't exist.
Go back to Biology 1 in high school and continue your education.
You are smart enough to ask, but apparently were absent that day.

Answer 8

no, he's not crazy. as a color blind male, i see things that to me are kind of red / kind of green...
i see grass, i see green, because that's what i've been told, so he would not be crazy, he would just experience the colors differently.

i can't tell when the colors are lighter in hue, but still i have my perception of what is red and what is green, we don't see those two colors as grays, just not as what others see them.

Answer 9

no for he sees as we see and not as his people do

Answer 10

I agree with Pheanix Quill.We don't just label someone with exceptional abilities as crazy