Random thoughts and replies thread

[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.