Has anyone else considered the possibility that different people may see the same color differently? That perhaps each individual has his/her own set of colors through which to view the world? This is a reasonable quandary because the way in which we learn colors is completely by association. If you see a purple sky and are told to call it blue and I see a green sky and are told to call it blue, then we will both see a blue sky.

Ditto.

What color do you see when you "see red?" If I see red and you see blue, then seems to me you'd be less angry...did that make sense?

By the same token, feeling "blue" would have a whole different meaning if we really felt "red."

Incidentally, fast food chains use bright colors like red and yellow (McDs) because psychologically, these colors make people eat faster (and a few other effects).

All of the above suggests at least similar vision in terms of "hot and cold" colors.

Has anyone heard of "supertasters?"

Posted By: [Expletive Deleted]

Has anyone heard of "supertasters?"

Sure -- recessive trait.

You can only prove for certain one thing; that you yourself exist, Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum (Latin: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") a statement from Descartes. you just have to 'assume' that everybody else also exists and has the same if not very similar perceptions to you.Its just something you accept as a child that red is red and blue is blue unless your colour blind then it causes many problems,f we all saw colours differently more problems like that would come up

Your trying to say that problems would not occur if we all saw the spectrum slightly differently?

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What color do you see when you "see red?" If I see red and you see blue, then seems to me you'd be less angry...did that make sense?

By the same token, feeling "blue" would have a whole different meaning if we really felt "red."

Incidentally, fast food chains use bright colors like red and yellow (McDs) because psychologically, these colors make people eat faster (and a few other effects).

All of the above suggests at least similar vision in terms of "hot and cold" colors.

Has anyone heard of "supertasters?"

this can be explained away by understanding that we learn colors by association. perhaps the calming feeling we all get from seeing the color green derives not from the actual color green but rather from the color we associate with nature, which is also calming. does that make sense?

Let's put this into perspective. No matter how each of us individually perceives color, we all agree on simple matters. Grass (living) is green, as is the light at the bottom of a traffic signal. Fire engines, hydrants, and stop signs are red. The sky on a nice day is blue, with fluffy white clouds. It doesn't really matter if what I perceive as green is actually purple to you, because social conventions would tell us that when the green light is lit, it's time to drive, and when the red light is lit, it's time to stop. Therefore, no matter what our actual perception is or whether it's the same as anyone else's, we are agreed that those colors are green and red.

I like that one. I hope it isn't copyright.

How about

All the colours of the brainbow ?
Colour perception is intraspectral?

Or even..

Colour bars do not a prism make.

mmm - I made all of those up - but a quick google shows I am not alone.

Posted By: RedGreg

Your (sic) trying to say that problems would not occur if we all saw the spectrum slightly differently?

I think I did more than try to say it. I'll quote myself:
It makes zero difference if you perceive the sky to be a different color than me -- as long as we are both consistent in our perception.

Colorblind people have difficulty differentiating some parts of the electromagnetic spectrum -- but they still consistently perceive a given part of the spectrum the same way each time the encounter it.

It's not like the look at one Stop sign and say it's orange and then look at another (or the same one again) and say it's purple. The most common type of color-blindness, as I recall, is called blue-green color blindness and it causes sufferers to perceive blues and greens as gray.

Er -- if they are no 'visible light' then they are -- um -- invisible.

Posted By: bufar

_________

= Colorblind people can dream in color.
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I think that last one is technically true, since most colorblind people can only not see one or two colors.

I just found this beauty of a doozy...do blue greens appear grey (gray?) in their dreams? A nice green pasture, underneath a blue sky, would be a lot less pleasant if it all were grey...depressing, really. And the childhood game would be a lot different - "Red light, grey light."

Also -

Posted By: Trance

Assuming the myth that all bulls charge at red is correct, it proves all bulls see the same colour, to get the same psychological reaction, so why wouldn't this be prevalent in humans?

Bulls are colorblind. The cape is red to agitate the audience, not the bull. (He's angry enough from having swords shoved in him.) But this is another example of social perception forming individual perceptions - red is perceived as a color of agitation.

Did the first few people on earth set up this whole color psychology thing? Maybe the chief neanderthal thought, "Well, I know when I wear this red loincloth, I have a bad day," and proceeded to vent his frustration on the rest of his small cave-orhood, by which the psychological machinery to agitate humanity when red is displayed was instilled in the subconscious of humanity. I think I'm on to something...or it could be that I'm reading Jung right now...

Well, it may for some of the members on the site.

we're homo-sapiens, not Neanderthals.

Posted By: Paulustrious

I was always slightly uncomfortable with homo erectus.

Does that mean you're afraid of penis'??

Posted By: Yika

Posted By: Paulustrious

I was always slightly uncomfortable with homo erectus.

Does that mean you're afraid of penis'??

*smack

Posted By: cmseagle

Posted By: Yika

Posted By: Paulustrious

I was always slightly uncomfortable with homo erectus.

Does that mean you're afraid of penis'??

*smack

There is definitely a need for a sarcasm bbcode :(

Posted By: Trance

Assuming the myth that all bulls charge at red is correct, it proves all bulls see the same colour, to get the same psychological reaction, so why wouldn't this be prevalent in humans?

Bulls do not see any colors. They charge at the quick motion of the cape. If the cape were blue, green, yellow, orange, or whatever other color, the bull would still charge.

Posted By: Fact totum

Posted By: Udoboy

Bulls do not see any colors.

Oh yeah?? How do you account for the fact that gay bulls clearly prefer pink capes?

Thats a misconception. Gay bulls do not ever prefer capes at all.

Cowls?

And as proof here is a picture of..

...Clark Gaybull. He's the one that is not so horny.

(And it really is him!)

Well it is. Try pencilling in a moustache on your screen.

And check out the wings on the side of his head.

lol. Where do you find these, Fact totum?

I find this stuff in the course of my research for factoids, of course.