Submitted by Mahvish Qureshi on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 10:15pm.
I found our discussion in class on Tuesday about the reality of color to be very interesting. It reminds me of a class I once had in which we discussed the perception of color. As said in class we all have the same nervous system taking in the data, however we could have been taught to respond in the same way to something that we are all seeing dfferently?
For example what I see and call the color red, maybe a color that another person sees as blue but has been taught to respond to as red. Although this might be a stretch to the construct of reality that the brain forms, it may be a possiblity, that people may perceive things differently but have been given language skills that make them name things the same.
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I found our discussion in class on Tuesday about the reality of color to be very interesting. It reminds me of a class I once had in which we discussed the perception of color. As said in class we all have the same nervous system taking in the data, however we could have been taught to respond in the same way to something that we are all seeing dfferently?
For example what I see and call the color red, maybe a color that another person sees as blue but has been taught to respond to as red. Although this might be a stretch to the construct of reality that the brain forms, it may be a possiblity, that people may perceive things differently but have been given language skills that make them name things the same.