and....
how do we know that we experience colour the same as each other...
Is the colour that i recognise as red, the same colour you see... to put it another way, if i could see what your eyes see, and how your brain perceives it - would i describe it as blue?
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 2:24,
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most studies...
...have shown that when you ask people to create a colour (even in something as simple as adjusting rgb values on an old tv) they will independently choose very similar colours - so it's likely that we all perceive colours in a similar way.
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TheAlmightyBeev, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 6:29,
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But this is based on your individual
perception of the colour. When you grow up you are "taught" the physical colours and the words you associate with them. If my brain perceives the colour red as polker dot blobs of kittens, and the colour blue as cheese dripping pizzas, then if you ask me to create a colour by name, I will create something that ends up looking like polker dot blobs of kittens or cheese dripping pizzas to ME. To you it will look like how you perceive it. To everyone it is just RED...
That's the point of this philosophical question. You cannot simplify this to say that we'd all create the same colour, because we associate words with our perceptions.
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DavyBoyInGravyJoy Grey Goose Vodka on Ice, nothing finer, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 9:45,
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