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Re: Colors

I suspect that this is an unanswerable question, as its impossible (with
current technology) to get inside someone elses head. Its a bit like trying
to imagine what the world perception of my cat is like.

This seems a bit like the Turing test for intelligence, if the other person
always gives the same answer as I do and can't tell any difference than does
it serve any material purpose to assert that the perceptions may not be the
same?

Joel Rauber

-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert H Gottlieb [mailto:herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:33 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Colors


On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:22:34 -0500 "pojhome@swbell.net"
<pojhome@SWBELL.NET> writes:
Jim, we have a perception exhibit that depends on the retinal cones
that are sensitive to one of the primary colors becoming fatigued,
resulting in the eye becoming less sensitive to that color.
You should
be able to use this same effect to determine which primary color a
subject is looking at.

The question still remains. How does the color that I call "red"
appear to others when they see the same color?

Herb