K..To begin with…I’d like to claim THIS is an epiphany….Nice word..so I just had to do it….anyway back to the concept..I have to admit that this is not even 5% my thought….But I just liked it so much I had to blog it….Credit goes to Riju Mathew, a junior who surprised me(by just having any idea) with this idea…But all analogies n further ideas putforth are copyrighted by me..
The general idea runs that all the colors n visions in the world are just concepts….For each person what others sees is like their dream…You know he can see it but u just don’t know the exact image he has….Now take this….Consider I was born with a “defect” which makes me see all blue as white(we’ll just take those 2 for now)….So, since the day I started learning colors I’ve been forced to call white what we generally deem as white…For all you know I might be looking at blue(or what is generally deemed blue)….Now this might seem confusing takin an individual case….On a more general basis this condenses to sayin that no one sees the same color….i’ve been callin white what has been taught to me as being white and not because I SEE it so…hows that for a fun revelation??so whoever put names for colors had the privilege of naming what HE saw how he wanted and we just followed suite….so when someone showed me a block and said “this color is white”, it should have been just “This is white”…coz on the whole it seems like color is a very vague concept…but frankly I like the white n blue I see, so I’m happy with it I guess…
4 comments:
hey, so do i often wonder.It is a possibility...isnt it:D
yes dude i've always considered it was a possibilty.... this possibility might also be the reason we have different tastes in color.... like if i say red is my fav. color and u say ur fav. is blue, we might actually b seeing the same thing because of our altered perception... (not that i really believe in that but its definitely a theory)
i would suggest you read up about "Qualia". There are two ways to deal with this issue: one is to conclude that the nature of qualia are essentially incommunicable between two humans. this leads to a matter/mind dualism. the other is to use occam's razor and discard the concept of qualia entirely, since it is an unnecessary assumption that does not explain anything - so if the material cause is the same, there is no reason to assume that two individuals experience something different.
Thanks for introducing the term whoever u are...In fact it truly is irrelevant in the world but the whole concept of dualism is something which can rattle our brains when we really think about it...Gives us a whole new concept of how similar yet different humans could be...In depth it can even imply the obvious differences some people cite between one's right and another's wrong...qualia was definitely a gud read though.Thanx....
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