Do you REALLY see what I see?

[Kaytti]

This may seem confusing, but if you focus and take in everything I say you may find this interesting.
I've been explaining this to many people, and I thought it would be good to post.

Ok, 3 babies are born. They are perfectly abled and fine.
When they open there eyes they each see something different:


They see everything in different colours.
However when they grow up they are told the sun is YELLOW. So from now on, the sun is YELLOW.
They are told the grass is GREEN. So from now on, everything the same colour of grass is GREEN.

The only problem is, everyone is told the same thing whether or not they see different colours, all because one guy said so.
So, the question is, is the grass you see different colour to what I see?

Told you its hard to explain. Philosophy...

[OMGitsaROSS]

Yeah because everyone has different views?

[Browney]

Yeah. We all view the world differently.

[RedStratocas]

Well I think that question is more litteral than you think. If what you saw as green was orange to everyone else, how would you know? No one could ever be able to find out, because you've know orange as green your whole life.

[Ekalb]

Yeah, when I was younger and my mind wondered I thought about this, maybe all our eyes are different. To someone else the grass is what I would see as a purple but they call it green, and to me I could look at the grass as being green.

It's very weird and kinda hard to explain. Don't feel your alone in thinking about it at least once though.

[kk.]

i talk about what your going on about all the time so i know exactly what you meant lol

Obviously, this answer is actually, unanswerable because no one can have two pairs of eyes and view through them. actually, i just thought of a cool thread lol. ill post it in a second

[chilloutrich]

Ok, im not sure myself about this but for example, take a look at my avatar, the main colour is 'blue', ok now so if i said to somebody can you make this blue please, they would make it blue to what they see, both of us see the same blue because if he put his interpretation of blue then it wouldnt be blue for me and i would say; thats not blue.

what do you think?

[Breakfloor]

It is possible to answer this
color something green (or the color you see the grass) and ask evryone you see is the grass that color

[Simmzay]

No you just don't get it man. Colour is all perception, we are told what colour is what. Nobody has the same set of vision as someone else, so the appearance of various colours may differ for different people. Colour isn't the issue y'know?

I've thought about this but I had wondered less about colour/shading/brightness and wondered more about shape size and anything relative to that.

[Dan2nd]

This is very confusing .. I've never really thought about it to be honest