Question!

[conuly]

I had come up with this post last night, and then after I forgot it my philosophy class reminded me of it.

How do you know what you're feeling? What does it feel like? Do you think your physical responses to emotions are like other people's? Bonus question: Do you think it's possible that what you see as green, other people see as red? Or some color you can't see? I used to think that.

Comments

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To the first, I know my angry or annoyed when my eye starts twitching uncontrollably and my temples are throbbing. That's a good physical reaction right there. When I'm scared it feels like I can't breath.

As to the second, there are several documented disorders that make it so you see colors differently from other people. Color blindness being the most obvious, there is also one where people process reds as blues (can't remember the name of it). I believe there's different variations on that disorder as well.