Do you think we all see the same colors?
354675
Seeing that there is a general consensus on what each color is and what it looks like I would say that is a very good indication that we do.
373528
Yes I work for the institute of color technologies. We need to figure out everyones favortie color in the entire universe.(including aliens) can you help?
1126648
Color is actually made up.  We are seeing waves of light and our brain is interpreting them into what we perceive as colors.  Also, we see the waves of light that are being reflected off of things.  So if we see something as being blue that means that the other waves of "color" have been absorbed.  Quite interesting really, and a very good question.  Keep it up, I have had few good questions recently and was about to give up for the night.
989027
probably because all the other colors are taken
875463
Some people believe it is. \nPersonally, I don't see anything wrong with it. When it comes down to it, we're all part of the same species..
580200
Yes.\nReality, as we accept, exists within a perceptible spectrum/frequency range. We can measure many other wavelengths that go unnoticed by humans. In a way, it's like insects that see in the UV or IR wavelengths. Their "reality", in this sense, is much unlike our own.\nScience has only identified X% of spectrums and, considering the numerous anomalies that occur on a regular basis, there is no telling what happens or exists in these undiscovered frequencies.\nThen again, I'm just a computer scientist, not a physicist.
672294
i think brown, blue, hazel, green, gray\ni thinks thats all there is right?
203681
We don't know that your subjective experience of the color green is the same thing as my subjective experience, anymore than we can know if your experience of the taste salty is the same as mine.  What we can know is that, if we were to show pictures of the same object to a number of people, and asked them to identify its color, there would  be a great deal of agreement in the answers.  But it would not be 100%, because one person might consider a color between red and orange to be red, another would call it orange.  It's interesting to me, as someone who is red-green colorblind, to see people, usually ones with normal color vision, insist that there are rigid definitions of colors.  Like, they will insist that the colors of the rainbow are, precisely, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet. (Roy-G-Biv, the physical science teachers call it.)\nIn fact, the potential frequencies of visible light, in other words the colors of the light, vary continuously from just above infrared to just below ultraviolet; there is no hard and fast definition of "yellow". And different cultures divide up that spectrum differently.\n\nGetting back to your question, I suppose scientists could do experiments with the chemical receptors that detect color in light.  People with normal color vision have three different kind of receptors, which are sensitive to three different colors of light.  (I only have two kinds of color receptors.)  It is the levels of excitation of each type of receptor that determines what color is being perceived.  That is why we can model any given color by mixing together just three colors, as in a TV set.  Scientist could probably determine if chemically these receptors were the same in various individuals; for all I know that research may have already been done.
436394
7\n\nRed, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Orange, Yellow
72478
yes, they do! but they see two objects not just one!\n\nps: i'm not cross-eyed.
330219
This is like one of those projective personality tests. =/\nI'd say a multitude of colors. Each color taking a majority of the sphere under different circumstances. Never always the same color. \nWhy? Because there are many sides to the same person and they surface under different circumstances.
802310
Yes. If we live all with the same beliefs.
329750
uum... we're not green, the world's not blue, and we don't see only red. We see billions of colors. We see many more colors, the world's many more colors, and we are anywhere from orange (the oompa loompa's) to red (burned)to purple (bruised), to blue(choking), to green (again bruised) to brown (or black), to tan or peach (whites).\n\nSo I guess the answer to your question is we're not green, the world is not blue, and we don't only see red... oh and the world is not blue (for the second time)
854178
Uh, I'm not smart on this, so I'm guessing here, but...\nSince different frequencies and wavelengths are what determines what color is being reflected, there has to be some way to quantify the amount of each in different hues of different colors.  Does that even make sense?  I don't know...
461513
I dont think you can. =^P It would be wierd if I was seeing blue and somebody else was seeing (my version of) red and saying it was blue... Mabye everybody has different color views. Never know.
451973
Biology will tell you no, but think about this...\n\nI have always wondered, what if the color you see as yellow is the color I see as green?  See, we are all taught colors, so if I was seeing "green" but my parents had always told me it was "yellow,"  I would learn to call it yellow.  So colors could theoretically be relative.  We are taught that they sky is blue, but if we had always been told that they sky was orange, we would think the color blue was called orange.  See what I mean?\n\nThere is probably some biologist out there who can find some way to argue with me about wavelengths of light and ours eyes and something else to try to prove that we all see the same color, but for arguments sake, I like the theoretical argument better.
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being color blind does not mean you see everything in black and white.  Most people with colorblindness have difficulty distinguishing between similar colors, ie.  blue and navy blue........blue and purple....orange and yellow..and so forth.  Rest assured, colorblind people can distinguish between the varying traffic lights, and they also get the full enjoyment that we get, when watching color television:)