or do I see black and you see green, but we both call it yellow?
when we grow up, someone tells us what a color is called, so if I saw orange, but my parents and teachers call it grey, thats what I am told what it is.
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prismVoted for by zion67and8.
light (electrons) use the prism to identify its conductor much like a spectrometer identifies metal or matter
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coloursVoted for by Alexxx.
Ok, I don't know which post was first but I already commented on the topic "colours" which basically asks the same question. Based on what I learned in chemistry class this past year and from reading posts on the other topic...We all perceive light in the same way. We also identify the same colors with same names unless we are colorblind. So, if you ask me we must all see the same colors.
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ummm... yah...Voted for by Crazyhead.
our entire existance is based on what others tell us, and filtered by what we percieve... for all we know the sky is plaid, but, we see it the way we see it, therefore it is real to us...
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No we don't ALL see the same:Voted for by Sssid.
If we remove the eyes from several bodies and we disected them and microscoped them and examined them all in minute detail etc. etc. If the biological make up is idnetical to the nth degree, then yes people will see the same colours. If not, then no people will not see the same colours. What are the chances of two people having eyes of an identical chemical and/or biological make up? Slim or Great? If slim, then the chances are that most people would view colour differently. If great, then groups of people will view colours identically. Conclusion: "No we don't ALL see the same colour."
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Colour perceptionVoted for by Beena.
I think if we are not colour blind we all see essentially the same colour in a given colour, but our emotions at the time bring a different kind of depth or shallowness to that colour. I've heard there are people who can't taste nor smell. Having food is not a pleasure to them. They usually live unhappy lives. Imagine that, they don't even have an option to perceive something differently based on emotion at the time.
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Ineffecient EyeVoted for by Sharcu.
A simple test that everyone passes: http://allpoetry.com/Poem/1596763
Very simple... the eye is highly ineffecient, yet what are we suppose to do about it?
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What about this?Voted for by lordmonkey.
If people see different colors different ways, why does everyone call black "dark"?
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*wink*Voted for by drastic plastic.
What is color? Color depends on lighting, number of rods and cones in the eye, and conditioning.
take, for example, an aquamarin shirt and ask a variaty of people what color it is. Some will say aquamarin, but some will say blue, and some will say green.
Color is all in the perseption.
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omgi have been wondering this since i was real young. and i want proof that we cannot prove this wrong. i have recently brought this up with my friends and i seemed to have a hard time explaining it. which i rarely have a hard time doing. after about 45 minutes, i think most of them got it. but what you have to consider is that the question has at hand has nothing to do with the NAME of the color, but rather the DEFINITION of each color. the point is, we do not have a way to describe color, or brightness. we can prove that we see objects because we can describe to others the size and shape and feel things and measure things. but colors we taught to us when we were young just by the name. "this is yellow" is all we know. if everything that we think is "yellow" looks different to someone else, we would never know. if "yellow" looks like the "blue" that you see, everything that is your "blue" will be "yellow" to them, because thats what they were told was YELLOW. its very hard to break down into words. if you are looking at the words i am typing, and you (and everyone else) calls it "BLACK", thats just what we know is black. but it may look like pink to someone else. who knows? but they still know it as "black" because thats what they were taught IS black.Voted for by cuzitwasgood.
and it all looks normal to someone, because thats what its always looked like to them.
weird huh?
this can ALL be applied to people who are colorblind. theres no difference or proof in someone who is colorblind.
it hurts to wrap your mind around it. and i am working on a documentary about it because i dont know of that much research done on it. and this is one of the only places i found of anyone questioning it.
so i would love to hear or talk to any of you who have opinions...ANY opinions about this. or even if you arent sure or cant figure out what is being asked, but you are interested. or if you have a good way to explaon the question...please let me know if you want to participate in anyway in the documentary.
i would really appreciate any response.
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No-everyone sees their own colorsThe colors everyone sees are different than those of others see. Colors are photons striking the eye and retina and being trnasformed through the optic nerve in to a 'color' in the brain as an 'image'.Voted for by GaryCGibson.
Every time a color is made it is in a slightly different circumstance both from the source material and its attributes and in the atmosphere and conditions in which the photons bounce from it through different atmospheric conditions.
Sure some might argue that like atoms and molecules there are quantum levels that they must all exist in. Hydrogen atoms have one electron circling about the nucleus and it cannot have more and remain that. There are so many different configurations atoms can have in the periodic table and maybe colors are the same way-there are seven primary colors but a plethora of shades in between.
Each human being interprets some of those color patterns flying about through various lighting conditions differrently I would think as each individual's brain is made a little differently from everyone else. My thinking isn't exactly like Einsteins and probably by neuron and general brain content/hardware is a little differrent. Computers of course don't see color at all but can interpret the wavelenghts correctly if hooked up to the right technology like the paint color scanner at Wal-marts paint departments.
Those optical scanners bounce the light off a paint sample an measure the angstroms of the light that returns. Each light-color wavelength is different and a laser can measure it I guess. Those small differences in the spacing of lightwaves can be meausured.
The computers at paint departments are hard to calibrate correctly and different stores yield differeent paint mixtures as may different machines in the same store or the same machine at different times. I think people are the same way and more so as the paint color sensing machines because with human DNA differrences more variety exists amidst people than machines.
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