How would you explain the color green to somone who's completely blind?

[ghosty]

ok so after discussing in the thread about how deaf people's minds think, i was reminded of this other head-trip of a question that left a few friends and i stumped for quite a while after smoking once, we returned to the question and still havent come up with a good answer...

the question is... How would you explain the color green to someone completely blind? Keep in mind because they are blind you can not reference it to another thing or color like "grass is green" or "it's the color made by mixing blue and yellow"... how would you do it?:wtf:

ghosty Reviewed by ghosty on 08-08-2007. How would you explain the color green to somone who's completely blind? ok so after discussing in the thread about how deaf people's minds think, i was reminded of this other head-trip of a question that left a few friends and i stumped for quite a while after smoking once, we returned to the question and still havent come up with a good answer... the question is... How would you explain the color green to someone completely blind? Keep in mind because they are blind you can not reference it to another thing or color like "grass is green" or "it's the color Rating: 5

[slipknotpsycho]

i've seen this question over and over...

the simplest answer is you can't... it's just physically impossible.... i mean you could explain spectrum and light refraction, but that would be describing colorS not the color green.

[M1K3]

Explain it scientifically.

[snowblind]

you cant because the names given to colors is only relative to knowing the color. its just a relative term used to name something that absorbs all light but the one it is.


whats more of a headfuck is how do you know that what i see is the same as what you see. we could both see different things but too both of us that is green.

[ghosty]

yeah we got into that in philosophy once, i had a great professor, he said how to some people perceive red could be what i perceive as green and you'd never know because they see red and see green as well, but it might not be the same hue or shade


i had the idea of explaining the color, by putting up a light spectrum... red will feel warmer than blue and so on... green would be somewhere in the middle and not as warm, you could get them to feel green, then explain that certain things they have felt before are green, but im still not sure if that answer holds up

[thcbongman]

I'd play them "Green is the Colour" by Pink Floyd.

[slipknotpsycho]

yeah we got into that in philosophy once, i had a great professor, he said how to some people perceive red could be what i perceive as green and you'd never know because they see red and see green as well, but it might not be the same hue or shade

i had the idea of explaining the color, by putting up a light spectrum... red will feel warmer than blue and so on... green would be somewhere in the middle and not as warm, you could get them to feel green, then explain that certain things they have felt before are green, but im still not sure if that answer holds up

i've never, up to this point understood that..

as i was about ot type "because we see the color, and agree it is the same color, and we all coloborate each other on it" but then it just clicked.... of course they could see what i see as red and know it as green and we both agree that it is 'green'.... but that doesn't mean my preception of red and green would be the same as theirs....

that really is another mind fuck.. i don't think you could really understand the philosphy behind the color until you take into account the way we see colors.. if that makes sense.... you have to into account the color you see is merely just light reflecting off said object... and there's a chance that it would appear diffrent to others as it is reflected..

[ghosty]

^exactly, it's pretty interesting to think about, perhaps thats why different peoples favorite color varies, because to thier perception it is a more pleasant color...

[youngtoke102]

i would decribe it to them as delicious and makes you feel warm inside....

[MadSativa]

its is a color that means GO