Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
Thats some serious thing... have you ever read Castaneda?



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.
But this is not a wild thought in the mist of night.. First we don't see color as color. we see reflected and transmitted light wave by the rods and cones that convert into electrical signals that are sent to the brain which then has to organize and rationalize those signals. The rod and cone cells in the eyes are different in each human Bean .. and each produce unique electrical patterns that are passed on the the brain. The electrical patterns produced in my eye is different that the signal produced by your eye..

So I am born and I see and a Blue square is produced in front of my new eyes. I at that point see a Color but I have no idea what that color is. If due to my rod/cone construction I see The Blue as a Purple I can't call it that because no one has taught me what either purple and blue are. My Brain has yet to have the information to make such concepts understandable.

So along comes Mom and Pops.. They Sit in the corner and show me the Blue square and tell me That Is Blue. Because each of their families Taught them that it was blue. And now when I see a fellow in a blue T shirt My Brain kicks in and says yup..thats Blue.. But due to the variation in the rod and cone construction in the brain its unlikely that anyone taken at random actually has the waves of light, converted by the optic nerve into the brain and neuron patterns, produce the same patterns.

Thens theres the concept that the square is not Blue in the first place.. It only reflects that portion of the light spectrum so a Blue square is actually all colors but Blue...