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      CommentAuthorsatansean
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2007
     

    hi,

    What if colours arent the same colours which other people see. Like say i saw Blue as what i thought was blue but other people saw what i saw as 'Blue' was as pink? and maybe you might see a green field as a grey field? im not sure if that made sense and im sure some1 else mentioned this before somewhere in the forums but i couldnt find it again :S
    :cool:

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    What if "no" means "yes", man?

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    duuuuude what if...

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    hey satan, thats called color blindness

    either that or druuuuuuug abuuuuuse

    dude

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2007
     

    Considering the huge "what-if" factor, and the fact that the point is moot because there is no way to prove or disprove this theory, what was the purpose of this thread in the first place?

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2007
     

    I believe the thread you were looking for was the Gendale thread. However, to answer your question, since perception is reality, what you see is what is real for you. There's no way of testing if my version of green is the same as yours. What I have been taught is green may appear to me the way that blue appears to you. The world may never know...

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2007
     

    Makes no difference as long as each of us perceives the same color the same way each time. What if the grass you see looks to you as if it's the red that I see? it would be normal for you to see it that way way. Consistency is the key.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2007
     

    Thanks, Fact totum - that was what I was trying to say in a very roundabout way. We all agree that peas are "green", lemons are "yellow", and oranges are, well, "orange". It doesn't matter if your perception of that color is different than mine - we're still in agreement.

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
     

    What's more, it's quite interesting that we all perceive "orange" to be a blend of "red" and "yellow." Does this mean even if we "see colors differently," that we still see them in differing shades of one another'?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
     

    Wow! I think it was me that came up with this colour concept in another thread somewhere.

    This means someone actually takes into account what I type in posts!

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
     
    Posted By: margaret

    What's more, it's quite interesting that we all perceive "orange" to be a blend of "red" and "yellow." Does this mean even if we "see colors differently," that we still see them in differing shades of one another'?

    They would still be in the same relationship to one another as it pertains to the spectrum, so we would perceive "orange" to fall between "red" and "yellow" and be a combination thereof. So even if we perceive the colors differently, we would all still agree that the rainbow contains the following colors in the following order: "red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "indigo", "violet"; since that's what we've been taught, that's what we perceive.

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
     

    Yes, but say what I thought was "red" was actually <orange.> If I wanted to make "orange" paint, then I would try to mix <orange> and <green> because to me I'm mixing "red" and "yellow," which I'd have been taught make "orange." So when I mix them I'd get <brown.> So .... would <brown> be "orange" to me?

    Sorry guys, I totally lost where I was going with that. I feel like my head is going to do this ...

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
     

    We perceive different sections of the spectrum as different colors. A 'color' can be defined as being of a certain wavelength. Think of our names for different colors as being a shorthand for some number in the wavelength spectrum. In that way the relationship between the names we use for that wavelength would remain static.

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      CommentAuthorjsimpleton
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
     

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