On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, caroline
escobar wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, louisa meyer wrote:
>
> > 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
>