A Matter of Perspective

Fishfriend1

Fishfriend1

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Interesting discussion on another site. The idea was that everyone sees the world differently, as in what's "blue" for someone could be red to another, but since they both agreed to call it blue it takes on the name "blue". I just wanna see what kind of discussion we can make on this COMPLETELY HARMLESS SUBJECT that NO ONE NEEDS TO ARGUE OVER OR BE BANNED FOR. So please, keep it civil, and talk away.
 
fail.... this should be in General Chit Chat lol. Someone move it please :headshake2:
 
Happy to oblige.
 
Thanks
 
Fishfriend1 said:
COMPLETELY HARMLESS SUBJECT that NO ONE NEEDS TO ARGUE OVER OR BE BANNED FOR. So please, keep it civil, and talk away.
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Sounds like a challenge. :evil_lol:



But in all seriousness, perspective is everything. For instance, from their perspectives everyone I meet throughout the day exists. I'm not entirely sure this is true. But then who do I ask for verification? They're all biased towards wanting to exists (or at least believe they exist).
 
Blue is a scientifically quantifiable thing. It's light of a specific wavelength range which isn't subject to one's perspective.
 
As true as that is, you and I could be looking at the same swatch and have no idea if our eyes are percieving the same shade.
 
Inka4040 said:
As true as that is, you and I could be looking at the same swatch and have no idea if our eyes are picking up the same shade.
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The exact shade? You're probably right. But does the difference matter? Until you start getting to the borderlines between colors the difference is truly meaningless, and we're good at preventing border issues from mattering in the big things. You don't need to see a particular shade of red to know to stop, it just has to be unmistakably distinguishable from yellow and green. And on top.
 
I think the whole point is that as biological entities who grew up in different environments, we all look at the world from slightly different perspectives, for whatever reasons. The use of color is just an easy and convenient example to illustrate the principle. It's not the exactness of the shade that matters as much as that it encapsulates something that to an extent, is true on a larger level as well.
 
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