okay. this may be hard to explain but ill try to do my best. my friend thinks that each person sees color differently but we all learned it the same. So basically she thinks that i might see green. but to her its red. but we both learned it as the color red. we just cant tell that we see it differently because we learned it the same. i completely disagree with her. i think that everyone sees the same colors.
is she right or wrong?

she's wrong

I have thought of this before so many times but never bothered to research it.

It could explain why people have different "favorite colors".

I shall read up on this later.

I can't imagine what fucked up world people live in then , if some people see that the grass is red and the water is purple =D=D But thing is , that would be just normal for that person if it was like that

e/ why the fuck would we see color differently Oo Blood is red I dont think some people see it green for example

This post was edited by DJVIP on Jan 23 2010 07:07pm

Neurophilosophy attempts to answer this question. Here's a good summary of a book that talks about qualia and the mind-body problem.

http://www.qualia-manifesto.com/qualia-summary-e.html

This post was edited by AEtheric on Jan 23 2010 09:35pm

well, i'd have to go with my gut feeling on this one:

she's a woman; therefore, she's wrong.

It is an interesting idea. I also do not think there is anyway to determine this.

I think what she was trying to say is that, even though we both call it the same color, it appears differently to separate people.

@ DJVIP
It would not be weird due to the fact that someone spent there whole life like it. It also does not identify it as physically another color, it is still the same name but appears differently.

E/ I also thought about this before, perhaps people with blue colored eyes perceive thing differently than people with brown eyes.

This post was edited by stacked on Jan 23 2010 10:12pm

Can't really make theses assumptions if we ain't talking about the same colors eh?

In a limited way she is right. You don't "see" with your eyes, you see with the minds eye. Your eyes collect data, and your brain interprets it. Your brain and her brain might interpret things differently.

That being said: Through common experience, it is clear that most people see pretty much the same things when we look at something. We all judge distance pretty much the same way, and recognize faces the same way (although some of us are certainly better at this than others). So what she is saying is certainly possible, just not very likely.

Shes wrong my friend.