Do we see colors the same?

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I think we can all agree that the big apple in the middle of the picture is red. Right? . . . Well yes, obviously. But is the color I see as red, the same as how you see red?

Of course we all know that not everybody sees color in exactly the same way. Those who are color blind for example. People with red-green color blindness will describe the experience that there is this color who people sometimes call red, sometimes brown and other times orange. This is because those with red-green color blindness are missing one of the three color photoreceptors. This is not hard to find out since they would ask you; Why are you telling me an orange is orange and an apple is red? Are they not the same color?

How is it possible we don't see colors the same?

Well, researchers point out that colors are differentiated by how our brains react differently to different wavelengths of light. They believe our brains don't automatically associate, for example, short wavelengths with blue. Imagine this as if the color wheel inside your brain is shifted.

Is there a way to find out?

You can't describe how a color looks. Also if you were to express that the color blue is associated with cold or the emotion sad, it would not make sence since the person who may or may not see the same colors as you do ,will ,whatever color they see, also associate with cold and the emotion sad. All this means that our visual world could be extremely different from one another. Image what the world would look like if everything was another color. What this could also mean is that we all have the same favorite color. Which is very unlikely, but still blows my mind.

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