A Matter of Perspective

blue
lol

(but I've noticed that sometimes it prints blue when I select black. actually, while I'm writing right now it looks black.)
 
SubRosa said:
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.
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I'm assuming that you haven't been to Texas or California then...
 
I think some people aren't really getting it. What my original post was trying to say was that people may see certain wavelengths of light as different colors. Color is simply a creation of the brain to represent something the senses tell it, each brain is unique so it goes to say that every brain sees it's own unique set of colors. Perhaps not to the extreme of blue being red, but to a degree of purple being blue, red being orange, and so on and so forth. Since your parents and teachers tell you that the particular wavelength of light is called "blue" you learn to refer to it as blue, even if another looking with your perspective would call it purple, green, or red.
 
Fishfriend1 said:
I think some people aren't really getting it. What my original post was trying to say was that people may see certain wavelengths of light as different colors. Color is simply a creation of the brain to represent something the senses tell it, each brain is unique so it goes to say that every brain sees it's own unique set of colors. Perhaps not to the extreme of blue being red, but to a degree of purple being blue, red being orange, and so on and so forth.
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Color is more than a thought. It exists whether someone is looking at it or not. By that assessment, you could label anything in the physical world as a 'creation of the brain'.

Unique or not, human beings are very similar in construct, so they should all be seeing 'generally' the same thing.
Since your parents and teachers tell you that the particular wavelength of light is called "blue" you learn to refer to it as blue, even if another looking with your perspective would call it purple, green, or red.
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What evidence do you have to support your idea? Is this just conjecture?
 
Blue is "blue" because that's the name asociated with it. It's just a superficial name, like how english calls cats cats, and spainish calls cats gatos. It's just a placeholder for the image, all people will agree that the image of "ocean" ussually corresponds with that of "blue". Therefore Oceans are blue.
 
My point was that even if humans are all unique that we still are very similar and generally see the same things. Someone may not see colors exactly like you do, but it's usually pretty close.

Language is one thing, and the names of colors are how we define each one that we see.

That's kind of far off from the OP claim of everyone seeing the world differently. That's fair, but my question is how much different? I don't think it's that different, otherwise it would be difficult to set standards.
 
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