colour definition

who chose what colours are what? what if the sky really isnt blue and the grass isnt really green, we've just been told that to keep us quiet how do we know and who do we trust? answers on a postcard

 

Hahaha, great question..! Society i suppose. Same with numbers. "Why does two plus two equal four?" Because the guy who invented maths decided that's the way it should work, and everyone agreed with him. I guess..?

 

Ugh don't get started onto the what colour is red? Does red look the same to different people?

 

ah but does it will we ever know? and is it indeed red.

why is it some things we just accept such as these, but other things we spend our life questionning?

 

Only the names in maths are invented, the rest is a natural constant, patterns and sequences that we have attempted to come to understand through the names we ascribe to them....

 

Another colour related question is, what if everyone's interpretation of colours is different to everyone else's? What if I see red when someone else sees what I see as blue? Nobody would know because the two different interpretations would be of the same colour, so they'd both be associated with the same name.

 

I know, but you're taking this too seriously. You might as well say that red is red because it's red. Or that the floor is there.

 

Sorry, it's just the way I think. I've had the hippy philosopher beaten out of me by academia. I was walking to the shop with my friend Reuben when we came across a grafittied message in marker pen saying 'Reality is Subjective'. He thought it was incredibly cool. I thought it was an incredibly flawed and cliched expression....

 

Anyone seen 'Ed Wood' with Johnny Depp?

It's a black & white film and in one scene Depp and his female co-star are trying to decide which dress she should wear in the film within the film. They ask a passer by, "Which dress do you like, the green one or the red one?". "Which is which?" replies passer, "I'm colour-blind, so I don't know which is the red one...But I like the dark grey one."

It's just a joke about the real film being black & white (a funny joke too!), and it doesn't really have much relevance here. But the thread reminded me of it...and did I mention it was funny...Bye