Colors - Explaining them to blind people, seeing them differently, and more

[SupremeCommander]

it would be horrible to only have the feeling of taste and you would have to go around and taste everything to figure out whta it was and read barrile with you tounge

Taste =/= Feeling.
Taste = Taste.
You taste a sausage, your taste buds don't feel it.

The five commonly known senses (excluding premonition and those, etc) are:
Sight,
Hearing,
Taste,
Feeling,
Smell.

Taste is not something you feel. They're distinct.
And its braille. You could spell once, surprising you lost that ability.

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[GhostOfBetaTapes]

I had a topic on this sort of thing a while ago.
The OP:

I was thinking, one day a while ago, does everyone see every object the same, or does each person see everything completely differently and their brains just edit the image so that it works with our brains? Then, I went on and thought "how would we know that we're not just being secretly controlled?" Then I read "1984". So, after that, I questioned mathematics and the possibility of infinity, and why, when every other number can be perfectly organized and displayed, why can't there be a rational number at the very end of it all? Finally, I just thought about the contradictions of religion and the quandary that religion has placed itself in by trying to show that religion is completely correct.

it's mindblowing if you think about it hard enough.

...Except mine is also about the representation of the world as a whole in comparison to different people.
I love this kind of topic. I can think about it for hours and not get bored.

[SupremeCommander]

I had a topic on this sort of thing a while ago.
The OP:
...Except mine is also about the representation of the world as a whole in comparison to different people.
I love this kind of topic. I can think about it for hours and not get bored.

Until you say 'religion' and Inv3rted comes along and tries to stuff all over you. 

Infinity is a placeholder. You can play with it a little in tandem with concepts such as limits and things, but it is ultimately not a quantity, but a concept. It represents an impossibly enormous large number (as you know) but it isn't a real number. You simply cannot perform numeric operations and expect a numeric value on something that isn't a number. You cannot multiply infinity, add to it or anything, and, seeing as it is indefinite, you cannot divide it (although you can divide by it) and you cannot subtract it. You simply get expressions which refer to it in place of actual values. It is a pronumeral, a placeholder, if you like.
It is simply a convenience for mathematicians when they wish to refer to gigantic values. It is entirely a misconception to take it as a number like any other, because that carries the wrong ideas.

[Exoyo]

Well, Im lucky.  I am completely blind without my glasses. So if i have my glasses off I couldnt see stuff. 

Lucky basterds

[Tom Gunn]

Lets say i look at a color and i see red, I point at the color telling the person next to me that it is red.

The person nods his head and agrees.

But i were to look through his eyes, i might see yellow.

Yet he would acknowledge that it was red.

Therefore, we both see its color differently, yet know it by the same name.

Do understand?

[WhatevaGuy]

I was in the car with my sister and a black man (it was a car dealership test drive thingy) and I was talking to my sister.
I told her that you can't explain colors to a black person.
;-;

[Tom Gunn]

I was in the car with my sister and a black man (it was a car dealership test drive thingy) and I was talking to my sister.
I told her that you can't explain colors to a black person.
;-;

o u.

[Niliscro]

I remember hearing somewhere that older people, who saw more black and white television during their lives, have a higher chance of dreaming in black and white.

Which really only slightly pertains to this topic, but whatever.

Lets say i look at a color and i see red, I point at the color telling the person next to me that it is red.

The person nods his head and agrees.

But i were to look through his eyes, i might see yellow.

Yet he would acknowledge that it was red.

Therefore, we both see its color differently, yet know it by the same name.

Do understand?

Colorblind people might see yellow instead of red, but they know yellow as "red".  Yes?

[yuki]

The five commonly known senses (excluding premonition and those, etc) are:
Sight,
Hearing,
Taste,
Feeling,
Smell.

Taste is not something you feel. They're distinct.
And its braille. You could spell once, surprising you lost that ability.

Premonition isn't a sense. There are only 5.

[Niblic]

Grab a red object, and go "this is red, to you it would be a certain shade.".

They can't see, stupid. Heres a fixed version, though.

Grab a red object, and go "this is red, to you it and everything else would be completely black.".

[Tonce]

I'm deaf, and when I dream, there is sound >:3
(I have a cybertronic ear.)

[Niliscro]

I'm deaf, and when I dream, there is sound >:3
(I have a cybertronic ear.)

Were you deaf since birth?

[Anti-Block]

In class, we learned that a red shirt sends every color's wavelength except the red wavelength.

On that note, if our parents told us red was yellow from birth, We'd live life until someone told us yellow was yellow and red was red. I figure I would be hospitalized in a state of shock.

[MasterCookie]

So basiccaly if I point to red

Some one else might see, what I consider yellow? But sence thats the way they learned it, it's red.

I don't think so, i was thinking, you know the things that go Red Green

And try to trick you? Well No one ever said those were the same color, like the word  red, was actually what I consider red. (Instead of yellow)

It's very hard to explain/ Understand. And I just suck at explaining what I'm trying to say

[Niliscro]

In class, we learned that a red shirt sends every color's wavelength except the red wavelength.

It absorbs every wavelength and reflects red.