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Is there another color

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CitizenKane
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I know everyone has probably thought of this before but I want to here what you think.

so could there be another color? like a whole new color completely different from the rest?

also does every one see colors the same way? what if I see the sky as blue and you see the sky as red? but you wouldn't know you were seeing red because you would think it was blue
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SFB
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TheGreenBastard
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JAHpow
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Yes, some people see colors differently than others. Commonly known as color blindness.

Also there's our visible light spectrum where we get our colors from but there are different wave lengths of light and Idk what color, if any, those are.
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GayWolf420
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yes
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Mingg
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Probably, I'm gonna say there are. Different colors are just different wavelengths. Some wavelengths aren't visible to us so the other wavelengths are probably a different color that we just can't recognize.
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JakeAssBeatClap
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yes there are many other colors that we can't perceive.

For example some animals see near infrared and near ultraviolet wavelengths. They seem them as colors that we cannot see. Also there are animals like the mantis shrimp who's eyes are so much better at ours at picking up color, that their vision to us would be a wild color trip akin to a psychedelic experience if a human were to look through their eyes. They perceive color to a far greater extent and see colors that we cannot see.




So yes there are lots of colors we can't see. Everyone sees color differently. And language plays a large role in perception of color. Native Americans had about ten words for each one of our colors. So they technically had 10 blacks, 10 whites, 10 blues, 10 reds, etc. Although we'd all see the same color that they'd see, they had distinct names for certain shades, which wired their brains to have a more toned color palate. They couldn't technically see more colors but they could differentiate and identify many more than, say, a modern american.
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DIPED_IN_SAUCE
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I have a friend who is poly chromatic. She sees more colors in things. Like when she looks at the sky she sees blue, and layers of red and purple as well. It's really trippy sounding.
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eheath
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I've thought about your second statement so many times, it's very possible that one persons blue is different than another person's blue, but we'd never know.
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-MK-
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pussyfooterI've thought about your second statement so many times, it's very possible that one persons blue is different than another person's blue, but we'd never know.


I've thought about both in op a ton. Actually was talking to someone about it yesterday.

And it's mind boggling because tere is no way to find out
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feihlination
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pussyfooterI've thought about your second statement so many times, it's very possible that one persons blue is different than another person's blue, but we'd never know.


but colours arent qualitatively different things, they are just quantitatively differing (in that the wavelength is changed). so someone who sees the sky as "our" red would have a completely shifted spectrum and maybe wouldnt be able to see green or yellow at all.

what i mean is, there is literally no chance that someone who is not colorblind (or has another detectable condition) just randomly sees red where "we" see blue and is mixing up other colours just because. that would be a very specific condition.

i would bet that 99% of (healthy) people see the colours the exact same fucking way like you and i do since a lot of artistic/branding/etc. stuff simply wouldnt work at all if there was a differing colour perception. it is also evolutionarily advantageous to have blood and other "danger" elements as red (in that exact wavelength), because thats what we can see in our periphery vision.

this discussion is pseudo-"deep" shit someone talks to his friends about to sound intelligent.
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Mr.LemonPie
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JakeAssBeatClapSo they technically had 10 blacks, 10 whites, 10 blues, 10 reds, etc. Although we'd all see the same color that they'd see, they had distinct names for certain shades, which wired their brains to have a more toned color palate. They couldn't technically see more colors but they could differentiate and identify many more than, say, a modern american.


We have a ton of distinct names for different shades...Anyone into design/painting whatever I'm sure would be able to name at least 10 different blues/yellows/reds/greens etc. Which I guess is what you are on about, toning the brain to see the differences in the colors.

Colors are really cool, and everyone does see them a bit differently. Like people said unless you're colorblind or something the red I see is the red you see, but everyone has a range of shades they can see and can distinguish between. Think about how some people can't seem to see the difference between dark blue and black and wear clothes just slightly mismatched.

Women generally see more shades of color than men, and apparently some people can see significantly more shades than others, but there is no way for them to self identify because they don't know what other people see.
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Mr.LemonPie
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And thinking more about your original question in the thread title, there probably isn't another color, especially not anywhere on earth. But potentially on another planet around another star somewhere light would hit the atmosphere some different way and deform the waves somehow or something and there could be a completely different palette of colors.
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eheath
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feihlinationbut colours arent qualitatively different things, they are just quantitatively differing (in that the wavelength is changed). so someone who sees the sky as "our" red would have a completely shifted spectrum and maybe wouldnt be able to see green or yellow at all.

what i mean is, there is literally no chance that someone who is not colorblind (or has another detectable condition) just randomly sees red where "we" see blue and is mixing up other colours just because. that would be a very specific condition.

i would bet that 99% of (healthy) people see the colours the exact same fucking way like you and i do since a lot of artistic/branding/etc. stuff simply wouldnt work at all if there was a differing colour perception. it is also evolutionarily advantageous to have blood and other "danger" elements as red (in that exact wavelength), because thats what we can see in our periphery vision.

this discussion is pseudo-"deep" shit someone talks to his friends about to sound intelligent.


You're getting too literal here, it's completely possibly that deep in every persons brain they see colors differently, just because certain colors work as a design doesn't mean it would be any different if someone else saw it differently.

The point is that someone's colors could be different, but to that person it's normal and they assume everyone else see color the same way too. It's a completely hypothetical situation because we can't prove it or disprove it. Sure colors are wavelengths and there is a lot of science behind it but when it comes down to it I'm talking about how the brain perceives these colors, it doesn't matter how they look or appear in a physical state (is that even real? We could go on).

Alright I'm done questioning existence for today.
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gRAPEFRUIT
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SFBOP rides the short bus


Open dat mouth bb.
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Ski_the_east01
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JakeAssBeatClapSo they technically had 10 blacks


ya but which one floats your penis?


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Mingg
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pussyfooterI've thought about your second statement so many times, it's very possible that one persons blue is different than another person's blue, but we'd never know.


There's tests to determine this. I don't know what they are but my Physics teacher showed us a study that proved that blue to normal seeing humans is the same.
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Forcillo
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Here comes our favorite paradoxical teacher to shed some light on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08
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ZachAndCheese
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There is serious proof that the Illuminati is actually hiding a whole other world of color from us. That's why they flew a spaceship into the twin towers. Research was being done their to discover the new colors that would free us from the suppression of the Illuminati. We must rise up and overthrow their tyrannical hold on our brains. We must find all the colors.
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Bateman
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ZachAndCheeseThere is serious proof that the Illuminati is actually hiding a whole other world of color from us. That's why they flew a spaceship into the twin towers. Research was being done their to discover the new colors that would free us from the suppression of the Illuminati. We must rise up and overthrow their tyrannical hold on our brains. We must find all the colors.


OMG!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!


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Mixy
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pussyfooterI've thought about your second statement so many times, it's very possible that one persons blue is different than another person's blue, but we'd never know.


Holy shit same! And you would never know because all the words used to describe it would be taught to the person!
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Miomo
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JAHpowYes, some people see colors differently than others. Commonly known as color blindness.

Also there's our visible light spectrum where we get our colors from but there are different wave lengths of light and Idk what color, if any, those are.


Colorblindness isn't seeing color differently. It's not being able to see a color, be it red, green, or blue. If one color is the same, except for how much blue is in it, then you wouldn't be able to see the difference if you can't see blue.

We wouldn't see colors outside the visible spectrum as a color we already know, or any mix between them. It'd be like describing the fourth spatial dimension.

MinggThere's tests to determine this. I don't know what they are but my Physics teacher showed us a study that proved that blue to normal seeing humans is the same.


It's difficult to prove anything in biology. I highly doubt it's really possible to prove that everyone sees colors the same, seeing as it's a strictly psychological matter that can't manifest itself as anything physical.
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RudyGarmisch
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MinggThere's tests to determine this. I don't know what they are but my Physics teacher showed us a study that proved that blue to normal seeing humans is the same.


Go tell your physics teacher to visit with your biology teacher if he really said that.

http://m.livescience.com/21275-color-red-blue-scientists.html
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Garebear
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SFBOP rides the short bus


what do the windows taste like today OP
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Mingg
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DarthVaderGo tell your physics teacher to visit with your biology teacher if he really said that.

http://m.livescience.com/21275-color-red-blue-scientists.html


Yeah I guess I was wrong haha perception in general is crazy to think about.

I wonder if hot and cold feel the same to everyone. Or even if pain in general feels the same to everyone.
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Labattski
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I think about that all the time but I'm pretty sure that science has proven we all the same colors. Also I read somewhere that birds like eagles can see colors that we can't see. It might have been owls actually
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acualywasdolan
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Kants metaphysics
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