Random thoughts and replies thread

[Quantummist]

Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see 'em tumble down the stairs.

[Quantummist]

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?

[Quantummist]

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

[TallCoolOne]

should i see death at a funeral or the ten tonight? My new job at the movie theater means i get all the free movies i want!

[rocktheganj]

dood what if everyone sees the same colours differently? like what if i see purple, and you see purple, but to me purple looks different than purple looks to you???


kinda hard to explain what i mean.... but yeah... that ones been on my mind for a while...

[Quantummist]

dood what if everyone sees the same colours differently? like what if i see purple, and you see purple, but to me purple looks different than purple looks to you???


kinda hard to explain what i mean.... but yeah... that ones been on my mind for a while...

You are actually correct.. The only reason what you see as red is called red is because someone taught you it was.. We each see colors differently and the brain has to be taught that what I see as Red is the same as what you see as red. If you have been taught that Green was Red and Red was Green and you were turned loose in town you might last 2 or 3 stop lights....

Red is red because we as a people agree it is.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

You are actually correct.. The only reason what you see as red is called red is because someone taught you it was.. We each see colors differently and the brain has to be taught that what I see as Red is the same as what you see as red. If you have been taught that Green was Red and Red was Green and you were turned loose in town you might last 2 or 3 stop lights....

Red is red because we as a people agree it is.

So why are you stating this as fact? I've wondered this myself, but nobody can actually say if we all see red the same, or if I see red as purple while you see it as green.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?

well... they witnessed the calfs drinking milk out of them, and we happen to have the same mamory glands. It's not hard to figure out, especially when you're hungry.

[Coelho]

You are actually correct.. The only reason what you see as red is called red is because someone taught you it was.. We each see colors differently and the brain has to be taught that what I see as Red is the same as what you see as red. If you have been taught that Green was Red and Red was Green and you were turned loose in town you might last 2 or 3 stop lights....

Red is red because we as a people agree it is.

Thats some serious thing... have you ever read Castaneda?

So why are you stating this as fact? I've wondered this myself, but nobody can actually say if we all see red the same, or if I see red as purple while you see it as green.

Thats what i think... there is no way to knowing how another people's mind percieves the world. Of course when we are children we learn that that color is called "red". But nothing ensures that if you would enter into my mind, the color i call "red" you would call "green" or vice-versa, as Gandalf said.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Haha, Coelho I just wanted to mention that you're the only person here who properly spells my name "Gandalf" and not "Gandolf". Fine work:thumbsup: