We all perceive colors and feel them visually. But have you ever imagined that the way I see colors is the same as you see them. Do we perceive the same colors? For me what yellow looks like might be what purple looks to you. Look at the pictures below. One could be what you see and one what I see. Look at these images. If the first image is what you feel is yellow it might look like the second picture to me. This seems to be strange because you might call the second picture purple. But what I feel inside my brain about the first might look like the second to you. That means purple inside you brain is yellow inside mine. I don't call it purple because I have learnt to say that a yellow. It is really very confusing, right? You should get into my head to find outBut there is a problem with solving the problem. It is that you can never come inside my head and try to look at the bananas from my point of view. So, we can never know that what I said is really true or not. The problem is also with the limitation of our language and the way we express our thoughts. I can only tell you that the banana is yellow. I cannot tell what exactly do I feel to be a yellow. For todays science, it is not easy to read someone's brain and view on a screen his feelings about the color yellow. And we don't know much about the brain's functioning so that we can tell if colors are same for everyone. Colors Aren't Real, You Just Imagine themColors don't exist. It is just that some electromagnetic radiations just enter our eyes and then, it is upon us, what we make out of it. We humans make visual perceptions from light (those electromagnetic radiations) and imagine what the world "looks" like. So, visual perception is just an imagination of the brain that it builds out of the information given by light. Every brain is free to imagine what it wants to, and so each of us is free to choose what a color - like yellow looks like to you. It is just upon your imagination. Does everyone has the same favorite color?This makes me imagine that it might be possible that all of us have the same favorite colors visually. But the difference is in there names. If my favorite color is yellow, your might me purple, but may be it is the same inside our heads. Wait for few hundred years to knowIt is possible that we might one day be able to process the electrical impulses of our brains and create a representation of our brains' visual imaginations on the screen and know that if colors look the same to everyone or not. Thanks for reading! Do share and comment
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