The idea that we might all see colors differently (I.E.: Your red could look like my blue) is disproven by the fact that yellow is always the hardest color to see on "white" (the combination of all colors). amirite?

+54 The idea that we might all see colors differently (I.E.: Your red could look like my blue) is disproven by the fact that yellow is always the hardest color to see on "white" (the combination of all colors). amirite?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Your red looks my red, and your green looks like my red!

by Hilario58 1 day ago

IF you keep seeing red , you're probably the Doom Slayer.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Two similar cameras pointed at the same view under the same lighting conditions would gather the same light pattern and store a similar sequence of RGB bits. From this we can be sure that the source is the same for everyone and if the receivers are similar, the stored image is similar too. Let's apply to humans. Genetically, all our eyes have similar matrices of cells (rods and cones) and sort of similar brains and neuronal patterns. Given this we could assume that the more similar our receivers are, the more similar the colors are that we all see and refer to.

by rempelchad 1 day ago

Im not sure thats the whole story. like a camera lens, the eye definitely receives the same set of data for everybody (unless youre colorblind). The question is what happens within the brain, since the "vision" we actually have doesnt come from the eyes themselves but from in the mind. There is some translation layer in there that takes this stream of visual data and creates the thing we can actually see, and that process could be completely different for everyone. The fact that yellow is the hardest to see on white might not disprove the theory if we dont see colors randomly. Yellow is a very luminant color, but you can easily imagine any shade of any hue matching that luminance. I find sky blue on white equally as hard to read as yellow. The hue may be different between people while the luminance is the same. Luminance is a very real thing we can measure in the world and its grounded in physics. Hue is made up by our brains.

by maximobailey 1 day ago

My yellow probably isn't your yellow though.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

There's no reason to assume it isn't. We're not different species, why would our brains interpret colors that differently?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Because it is possible that our brain never had colors predefined, sometimes it just fabricates something to represent that Sometimes what I perceive as white might not even exist for you. This wouldn't change how well you can see, wouldn't change how well you can survive and therefore it wouldn't be baked into our genetic code.

by flavie29 1 day ago

We have different tastes. Some people like foods that others despise. Why can't other senses be different?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I don't see how the two are connected. We can perceive yellow the same and still have different tastes about it.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

No, that doesn't prove anything. It only proves your yellow is close to your white, nothing else

by Anonymous 1 day ago

To play devil's advocate: White could also look different to everyone

by Anonymous 1 day ago