Monday, September 6, 2010
My issue with the subject of the color blind.
So, this is something I've thought about since I was, say, around 8. Its something I could never quite wrap my brain around. How does a person with colorblindness know that they are colorblind? I mean, if they see the color red as the color blue, and vise versa, how can they know? They grow up knowing red as blue and blue as red. I mean, theres no true way to enter a persons mind and see what they see. Red might look completely different to someone else, but they will still know it as red, right? This raises another issue with sound. Do all human ears interpret sound the same way? Do all our brains decypher sound waves exactly the same way? Does one band sound the same to another? Is what I hear high sound low to some one else? Too many questions, not enough answers.
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Someone told me once that everyone see's the same shade diffently, how can that be? There would be WAY TO MUCH COLOR. There must be billions and billions of different shades, smells, sounds, tastes, etc. But there is no way to test these, is there?
ReplyDeleteI suppose you could measure different aspects of people's eyes and brains by CAT scans and dissections; if they were the same in most ways it would be safe to assume that we all perceive color in a similar manner. That's the closest you can get to being able to test it.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, this bothers me. Your version of Green Day could sound like country to me, but there's no way of knowing.