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ok me and my friends were talking and we suddenly relized that you cannot describe color. like, my yellow could be some one elses green. get it? there is no way anyone can know. i think it's funny to have little kids describe it. they get fustrated and it kinda funy lookin. then i try to explain that it's impossible and they try all day to prove it. lol it's so funny. cause they come back with the same answer they had an hour before. but ne way. tell me, what does color look like. cant use color or shades or light in that case. use other adjectives.

yellow
green
blue
red
orange

Fine, I'll be serious now.

Green... Summer time, spring, look in the trees, that's green.
Red...The color of your blood when it reacts with oxygen.
Blue...Think of the water.. the sky..
Yellow...Sunshine..bananas
Brown... KEKEKEWKWK WK KIIIWIIIII!!1 (on the outsite )
Orange...Oranges!

there beautiful

Grape tastes like purple

Mints taste like blue

Leafs feel like green

Fire feels like red

The sun feels like yellow

etc.

Don't you mean they're? Not to be picky but meh.

two more to add on to mine:

Black...Darkness, evil, close your eyes...

White...Lightness, nice, bright.

You're not getting his point.

Say we switched bodies, we see what the other sees, exactly what the other sees. How do we know that what I see as purple is not what you see as yellow. Our retinas may not receive the light in the same exact way.

This is also as dificult as describing color to a blind person.

Everyones retinas percieve colour the same way, unless your cones are damaged or missing.

but how do we know? we've never switched bodies before. like i was saying, yellow for me could be blue for you. we think it look naturel but to another person, it might not be. i think everyone has a diff spectrum. we just idenified them by name so someone could reconize them. and yes kow is right what im talking about

Dang... I've tried to do this before...

The best way I could answer it was saying that we percieve colors more or less the same as any other human, because like Syphon said, our retinas are very, very similar.

I used to think of stuff like this all the time. I also used to pretend that the only things in existence were the things I was observing. Like if I couldn't see/hear/etc. you, then you ceased to exist. No one could prove me wrong. LOL

Try this:
The orange/red family is 3200 degrees Kelvin
The green/yellow family is around 4400 Kelvin
The blue/violet family is around 5600 Kelvin.

or mabey they are soo different, we can't tell what different is. and people, read the first post if you are gona try to label the colors for me. then reconsider and post what i asked! gosh... any way lol. if you couldnt use examples or comparison to other colors, try to explain it to me.

Ok, do a test, get a yellow piece of paper and ask someone what colour it is, chances are they'll say yellow. Then kick you.

Doodan, thats what I think... =/

i dont think any one here can even fathom what i talkng about

examples



COME ON! im not asking what the colors are dont you understand? let me break it down for you this is known as yellow. easy. but this could a different shade to you then me


think of it like this, you make maps. right. you know how do to it, but the concept that you created when you learned it should be different then one of somone else.

if any one in this forum knows what im tryin to say, help me explain it.

it feels like im a rocket sciencetist trying to explain tejectrey to a cave man...

That passes through my mind some times, then I remeber I'm not God.

ADDITION:


Stop changing your point, first it was colour now it's shade.

Don't even try to put your mind as better than ours.

I hear ya. What I perceive as green could be something totally different to someone else, but we agree its green because we don't know what eachother thinks. Like the food debate from the matrix. How do they know that what they think is chicken flavor isn't something totally different?

The food debate isn't exactley the same, they were argueing machines versus humans.

Your argument makes much more sense than mr. x's

doodan, you are the man. lol somone understands me. finally...

and syphon im not sayin im smarter or w.e im saying that i feel like no gets what im saying casue either they are too slow, or they arnt at the same level of understanding as i am. i dont think im smarter, i just think i understand this concept more then the average person on this forum.

>>edit : shade are a part of what forms color right? my point is the same as it has been since the first post

Sounds like you're calling us stupid to me.

sry then. im just fustrated that NOBODY i've ever tried to explain this to understands what im talking about, so mabey im not being clear enough

I understand, I have problems like this to, people think you're crazy I just try to explain things logically to even myself out... And in use for my constant crusade of trying to get people to explain things well.

hmm im thinkin of how else i can explain it. color... it's an adjective.

the point im try to get across is that it's impossible. there is no way to describe it to a color blind person. it not easy cause you dont know what they are seeing. it like when i made that post about hearing your own voice. only there is a way to listen to your voice outside of your own body.

You can listen to your own voice by pressing hard against your cheek bones.

I wish I was a monocromat.

I see red as what I picture red. You may not see red as what I picture as red. Vice Versa. You see what you consider red, red (Though I may see it as green). You see what I see as red as not your red. We both agree that text is red, but it may not be the same color if we saw it through eachother's eyes.

I know what you meen TF.

hit the nail right on the head