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Debate Score:15
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Color Lies

From the time we start school (and before) we our told what colors are and what the names are. How do we know that what one person sees as yellow is what is believed to be green by someone else??

We see them differently

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We see them the same

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The way I see it, we will never actually know if we are seeing different colors but calling them the same thing, and I have a feeling this thought will bother me for quite a long time.

Side: We see them differently
2 points

As a good example of that.. I dont think all people see the same colors. I see yellow, and yet my friend sees it white because he is colorblind. So we're gonna have a problem with that.

Side: We see them differently
1 point

some people see them differently like my friend i see green he see red

Side: We see them differently
3 points

If I see an object, say object X, I see it as color A. And if you see the same object and see it as color B, we still would call it the same thing. Me(A)=You(B)=Object(X)=green. That's to say you and I can call it by this name, both understand what we mean, and still have separate images of what that color is specifically. It's the same with a lot of words, like love, peace, happiness, and so on. We each have our own ideas about what they mean and represent. And we all see each other react in a similar way, but we do not know and cannot know if they 'feel' the same.

Side: We see them the same

2 different cameras, with the same sensor, take the same picture. We all have the same equipment and so we all see the same thing.

Side: We see them the same
1 point

But even in a video recording isnt it very possible that we see different colors but are just calling them the same tings, and no, we do not all have the same "equiptment". My best example of that are those of the senses; like taste, most people react differently to different tastes, also fear. That what scares some people does not scare others..... So isnt sight another sense?

Side: We see them differently

Hmmm..., you make a good point with taste..., but if we are able to determine that we taste differently, shouldn't we also be able to tell if we see differently? ;)

Side: We see them differently

In the strictest sense, we don't really know that I don't see "green" the way that you see "blue", but there is no good reason to believe that two people with eyes that have identical functionality would see colors different.

First, each color has a specific wavelength and frequency, which can be independently measured using spectrometers. The frequency is sorted out in our eyes by photoreceptors. So if two people had the exact same number and arrangement of photoreceptors and were looking at the exact same color, they should see the exact same thing.

Of course, not everybody has the EXACT same arrangement of photoreceptors, but this shouldn't change the intrinsic nature of the colors we see. It would just affect our ability to discern shades, a skill which some are naturally better at than others.

Of course, there are color blind people. These folks have a deficiency in one of their main photoreceptor types, so they can't discern between certain colors (my roommate can't tell the difference between red and green). But the correlation between their photoreceptor deficiency and responsiveness to light seems to add further evidence that the rest of us see colors in more-or-less the same way.

Side: We see them the same
1 point

Unless you're color blind you seem the same as everyone else.

Side: We see them the same
1 point

The color is dependent on the type of lighting reflected off of an object, no matter who you are, it will not change the type of lighting reflected off of the object. I am "color weak", i get my greens and reds mixed up (if effects my perception of most other colors, as well), my teachers thought i had a learning disability in elementary school. I don't see the colors that other people see, doesn't mean what i am looking at is not actually green or red, I am just.... impaired :(

Side: We see them the same