When I ws in the 7th grade I had a biology class. One day we were learning about how your eye absorbs the various wavelengths of light and your brain interprets each one as a different colors. I asked my teacher if it was pose that we all percieve colors differently. Like if I was in someone else's brain and their green looked like my red. Or it could be like a color ive never seen before. Has anyone else had this thought.
Yeah, it is a pretty common idea and also the reason for color blindness tests. They are designed so that the person can't just call a certain wavelength "green". Only by discerning the numbers or characters can the person's true color perception be revealed. We exist and function in what is known as a consensus reality.
I've thought about this a long time ago. It's not just that our brains need to learn what color is at certain wavelengths, the brain has to invent the entire concept of colors internally. So a developing baby's mind picks up a 480nm wavelength sensory input signal to his visual cortex and learns over time to call this sense blue. He can distinguish it, and fit it to his world with all it's common associations but does his mental image of blue look like my mental image of blue. Well even if you connect electrodes to his brain and pick up that he's thinking about a 480mn signal that we've all learned to call blue, are all our mental images of that color the same when colors only exist in our mind and their image is created internally? I think it's impossible to say for sure. There's a good chance we probably do experience colors the same with some exceptions of developmental issues and such. Likely because it's programmed in to our genetic code. If you think about it, there's an evolutionary reason why red, green and blue are primary colors. They're the top 3 survival colors of nature; blood/fire, plants, water/sky. If we evolved on a different planet our concept of colors may be completely different.
we are born with what is either the equivalent of a bios chip, or the spiritually accumulated effects of our previous lives.
Just watched this, reminded me of this thread... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08"]Is Your Red The Same as My Red? - YouTube
Yes I've had this thought. I wonder if you can apply the same idea to other things as well, like shapes and numbers. If we live in completely different worlds that all function and just have the same names to identify things.
But the colour blindness tests don't reveal a person's "true colour perception", do they. They may revel that a particular person cannot distinguish red from green - but they do not reveal whether that person sees both as the colour that I call red, or both as the colour that I call green, or perhaps the colour that I call orange, or purple, or brown, or aquamarine, or aquafresh, or tangerine, or pink, or magenta, or ... I think you get the idea. It is an interesting question ... but it is also ultimately and utterly ineffable. So perhaps we are better devoting our time to other problems :mickey:
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