Do We All View Colors the Same?
Thoughts on how we see.
Do we all view colors the same? Lets say my friend George and I both are looking at a blue chair. We both call the chair blue, but are we seeing the same color? Could both of our blues be different? He might be seeing the color I call red. My red could be what he calls blue. We both see the same texture of the chair and we both see the same shape of the chair, but how do we know the color blue is the same for us? Maybe we both grew up looking at the same object but he sees it in a different spectrum and now we may both call it blue but it might not be the same colors in our respective heads.
Then whose blue would be the correct blue is my blue the real blue or is George’s blue the correct blue. My Chemistry teacher once told us “Colors are imaginary, they are nothing more then energy.” Well to my knowlege energy and colors work off of wavelengths so in theory our eyes could take these wavelengths and turn them into any color they wanted. So theoretically his blue could be my red. The Human eye is so amazing. Of Course this is only a theory his blue might be the same as my blue, but that wouldn’t be fun now would it?
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6 Responses to “Do We All View Colors the Same?”
On March 31, 2009 at 8:37 am
Interesting bit of philosophising. Would like a bit more info on how we see things. I thought it was to do with how the light splits.
On March 31, 2009 at 11:51 am
When the eyes don’t process the wavelenghts correctly it’s called colorblindness. That’s the science of it.
On March 31, 2009 at 11:53 am
Interesting philosophy indeed, except that logically there is a problem. If his blue is your red and he calls it blue, you should see red, not blue.
I think we do see things differently, and the brain categorizes it according to myriad filters – smell, taste,memories, experiences, chemical imbalances, etc, etc. Hence “light blue or gray-blue?” or “far enough or too far?” Just my opinion, though.
On April 2, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Interesting theory, but a bit repetitious. I would have liked to seen a more scientific approach. You can answer all of the questions that you asked by studying the anatomy and physiology of the eye.
On April 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm
interesting, but like above stated, it could have been a little more scientific or fact based. Still good writing though
On April 14, 2009 at 8:53 pm
As for help you dont need it great write buddy… me myself am partically colour blind cant distinguish shades I can only see bright definite colours like orange yellow blue red and green and white and black… purple is blue to me navy is black, some greens are blue or yellow and I cant find a red golf tee in green grass… excellent article
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