The sun lowering through the half night sky, falling off the edge of the earth, slowly coming to total disappearance, such a beautiful sight, but what makes the sunset so unique? Of course it’s a combination of elements, but a main cause would be color. Color surrounds us all and makes everything appear more beautiful, but is color really what it seems? Is it possible that my perception of the color orange isn’t the same as yours?1
Imagine some one who is color blind, not like a dog, which sees black and white, but has a corroded vision so that the grass appears red. Well obviously if he had seen natural colors before, he would know that its really green. But what if he was born with this handicap. He would grow up learning that the color red he sees is called “GREEN”. This would allow him to appear normal, because whenever he would see what we would call RED he would “know” that the name of that color is “GREEN”. But he would never really acknowledge that when he looks at a blade of grass he doesn’t see the same color as we do.2
Now, I ask you, is it possible that you don’t see the same colors as I do? Is it possible that what you call “GREEN” is not the same color that I see when I say “GREEN”. And if this is possible then is there really any color at all or is it just how our brain puts together pieces of information? And if this is true with colors couldn’t it be true with everything else? Like when a person looks in a mirror is he really seeing the same appearance that people see when they look at him?3
“KNOWNONE”4
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this is just something i found interesting to think about
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i, i really don't know.
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If you beleive ignorance is bliss then yeah its better, but for me thats not enough. Ignorance is not bliss, ignorance is ignorant. why accept things as they are told and not as they are? if we dont seek the answers to these questions, what seperates us from our primitive past?
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it's very interesting. many questions are left unanswered and will never be answered, but i guess it's better that way, right?
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Omg I lvoe the way you wrote this
you ideas are amazingly original
and I reallly
really liked every word
great job here!
The sun lowering through the half night sky, falling off the edge of the earth, slowly coming to total disappearance, such a beautiful sight, but what makes the sunset so unique? Of course it’s a combination of elements, but a main cause would be color. Color surrounds us all and makes everything appear more beautiful, but is color really what it seems? Is it possible that my perception of the color orange isn’t the same as yours?
Imagine some one who is color blind, not like a dog, which sees black and white, but has a corroded vision so that the grass appears red. Well obviously if he had seen natural colors before, he would know that its really green. But what if he was born with this handicap. He would grow up learning that the color red he sees is called “GREEN”. This would allow him to appear normal, because whenever he would see what we would call RED he would “know” that the name of that color is “GREEN”. But he would never really acknowledge that when he looks at a blade of grass he doesn’t see the same color as we do.
Now, I ask you, is it possible that you don’t see the same colors as I do? Is it possible that what you call “GREEN” is not the same color that I see when I say “GREEN”. And if this is possible then is there really any color at all or is it just how our brain puts together pieces of information? And if this is true with colors couldn’t it be true with everything else? Like when a person looks in a mirror is he really seeing the same appearance that people see when they look at him?
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