Color interpretation

Italy
January 28, 2007 5:25am CST
More of a question than anything else... Do you think it's possible that colors are interpreted differently by different sets of eyes? For example if the green I know and recognize as green displays the shade of what I would view as blue in your eyes and vice versa, but we would never know that the two colors were different because we have always acknowledged the colors green and blue as the way we alone view them. Another example if the first didn't make sense: Both X and Y are viewing what they know to be the color red. Person X sees what person Y would call the color blue, but calls it red because that is the shade that person X associates with red. Person Y sees what person X would call the color green, but calls it red because that is the shade that person Y associates with red. Both are viewing two completely different shades of color yet both call it red because in their minds the name of the color before them is red. I'm not sure what, if any, effects would come from knowing the answer to this question. Maybe just something to think about
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@krusty1 (68)
21 Feb 07
i remeber thinkin this sort of thig wen i was a kid. i used to think i was different to every1 else and it worried me so i wondered wether the things i saw were the same as other people saw them! i also thought i was abnormal for having thoughts in my head, if u know wot i mean! like i had a voice that wasnt supposed 2b there. bearing in mind i was primary school age, i wondered if i was an alien lol
@Rachcaa (163)
28 Jan 07
I have always wondered this!! But there is just no way of knowing is there?! I don't think it would make any difference if we truely knew the anwser to this after all as you said even if we do view them differently we all acknowledge that blue is blue and red is red. But it would be interesting to know!