Sunday 6 February 2011

Do you think everyone sees in different ways? Example; two people are looking at the same color. One person sees it as a rich magenta, the other sees it as a rusty purple.

Yes. Just from the basic mechanical way the brain is built and the bloodflow in the retina, which is unique to the point of being used as an infallible form of identification, I can't see how two people could experience exactly the same image when viewing it.

I always liked the old example of two people looking at a branch and one seeing it as orange while the other sees purple. Since both of them have been taught from birth that the colour they are seeing is actually called green how would you be able to tell they are seeing different colours. Without cracking open their skulls and jamming probes into their brain and optic nerve.

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