An old philosophical question is, do humans even see the same color. If I see red, do you see blue? In your mind I mean, of course. Actually, we all generally see the same color. But I learnt in psychology class in community college in 1995, we still see them differently. Scientists at the time weren't sure. But when they examine different people's retinas they can tell, some people see colors much more vibrantly, maybe even finer shades, than someone else. When a group of people are in the same room, they all agree an apple there is red. But Mr. A might see it more bright and vibrant than Ms. B standing next to him. And if you ask is it a bright red, Ms. B will say yes. Because to her at least, it is what she thinks is bright and vibrant. Also, some colors humans don't even see. All electromagnetic radiation could be considered a color, or what is reflected off objects. But bees see something called bee blue. Bees can see blue light with a wavelength of 300 to 650 nanometers (nm). For us, that would be into the ultraviolet range. And we wouldn't be able to even see it. Actually, if something like X rays were reflected, we would see it as just another color. I don't know if there is an animal that sees X rays or what color it would look like to them (on another message board they said bees see bee blue as another shade of blue). But FWIW, X rays are just above ultraviolet on the electromagnetic spectrum.
There is no animal that can, and natural sources of the same are way too rare on earth for that ability to evolve, serves no purpose. At least eyes can not detect directly, I think that there are some visual artefacts that we might experience at very high levels of radiation (much like someone might see some from a headache for example).
The human race needs a special type(s) of eyeglasses with multiple modes: - Scam detector - BS detector - Sociopath detector - Subterfuge detector - Lie detector
Everything we see is an illusion........ Its all made up by our minds!! In fact if you really could see what "You were seeing" ya might be surprised!!
A while back, 1980's, a little girl died on the table and they brought her back. When she awoke, she said she had seen colors that have never been seen nor could she express enough that we do not have these colors as humans. I never forgot that and I think she wrote a book about that somewhere. Thoughts?
That intrigues me. The girl just mentioned colors we've never seen. That's hard for our human minds to grasp. One would need to pass and come back I suppose. She was young and wouldn't know what she was seeing, except, she knew it wasn't what she knew.
Well, if a little girl said that, it must be so? Especially if she wrote a book about it-- somewhere? And "died" on an operating table? But maybe her NDE resulted in deprivation of oxygen to her brain, and left her a bit addlepated?
To really blow your mind think about this. When a light image passes through the lens of the eye it becomes inverted. What the retina receives is upside down. That is transmitted to the brain. Your brain takes that image and turns it around so that it is inverted again so that it conforms to the reality of what your other senses tell you. You know that your feet are on the floor and therefore the feet of a chair must point the same way.
