> Hey everyone,
> I was just thinking about Timothy Gongaware's comment and it made me
> think of the age old question everyone contemplates on as a kid, and I
> still do...- when I talk about the colour green do you visualize the same
> colour? The more I think about it it really doesn't matter as long as we
> are using it as a symbol and we keep these symbols straight in our own
> minds. If you always see whatever it is you see when I say green then it
> doesn't matter if it is actually the same or not, right?
> It's a symbol. I still wonder though, I mean I know my dad doesn't see
> the same colour I do because he is colour blind, but do you?
> Maybe my green is your blue :)
> Louisa
>
Louisa, it's funny, but i used to always ponder that question myself. But
now using what i have only just very recently learned b/c of our class, a
new question has arisen. Generally, when we think of a color- we
associate it with certain emotions or characteristics- (ie green
represents growth, nature. Red represents anger or hot.) so my question
is this- if we by some chance don't all visualize the same color when we
talk about "blue" then the characteristics we all attribute to blue are
all based purely on socialization rather than emotion. we have been
taught that blue should make us feel "icy" rather than looking at blue
and actually feeling that way- because if my blue is your green, then i
know that MY green does not evoke "icy" feelings from me- or maybe it's
just that i've learned that it's not SUPPOSED to. But what if ( and this
is probably the case- except for color blindness) we all do see the same
colors...do colors generally evoke the same emotions in all of us. Color
is a pretty common symbol, but who agreed on which symbols they each
would convey? just out of curiousity, does your dad associate anything
with the colors that he can see (i don't know if he's black and white, or
red and green, or brownish greyish etc) and are they the same
associations we make with the same colors on a much much broader color
spectrum. Boy if little kids in kindergarten could hear our conversations
they would probably get frustrated with the whole issue and throw away
their crayons! :) carolyn