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

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

Chicken tastes purple? Interesting...

As for the associating colors with different words, I view the question as people physically seeing different colors, not calling them by different names. Chemistry is what determines what color something is (light being absorbs or reflected) but there are various genetic disorders that cause you to physically not see certain colors or see one color as another.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I view the question as people physically seeing different colors, not calling them by different names.
Well, I meant that, too. But they don't only "see some colour you don't see", they even have their own names for it. That's what I meant by that example.
And of course, you can never be sure that people see the same colour that you see, even within your own cultural circle. It's generally assumed that, I dunno, everyone looking at something yellow (let's say, FFFF00 yellow) sees the same yellow, but who knows whether they really are?