• Is it possible to explain a color to a blind man?
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I was feeling nostalgic the other day, so I decided to start up Mass Effect 1 on the xbox. I played through the game and came to a point where the Asari character that tags along with you, compares describing the visions in the Promethean beacon to someone to describing a color to a blind man. That really got me thinking of ways to even go about that. How would you go about describing a color to someone blind? Is it even possible? Inputs please.
It is impossible to do that, but it is possible to explain colour.
Nope! :v:
You won't have a problem explaining black to them. Well, if you do count that as a colour.
Ever seen the movie Mask? They do it a certain way in that movie, with cold objects being blue and warm objects being red and whatnot. It's really the closest way to describing color to a blind person that I can imagine
It's impossible.
[QUOTE=Emperorconor;20122681]It is impossible to do that, but it is possible to explain colour.[/QUOTE] also, what? It's impossible to explain color, but it is possible to explain colour?
You can explain colour scientifically but to describe the way a colour looks is impossible.
Could you even describe sight at all????????????????????????????????
"Hey, you see that red car there?" "What?" [editline]12:31PM[/editline] "Hey, check out that car." "I'm blind, you fuck!"
"It's better than being blind"
Well maybe he hasn't always been blind. So he can remember what colors looked like when he had his sight X_x
[QUOTE=Halahazam;20122778]Well maybe he hasn't always been blind. So he can remember what colors looked like when he had his sight X_x[/QUOTE] I just waved my hand straight over your head, but I think you missed that, too.
Do blind people dream? If so of what?
Unless they went blind during life, if born blind they have no concept of how anything looks. I don't even think their mind can really even generate how a person would look, because they never even seen one. [editline]03:33PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Comcastic;20122797]Do blind people dream? If so of what?[/QUOTE] Sounds, dreams don't have to be visual only.
In the movie "MASK" with Cher, some kid with a fucked up face explains color to a blind girl using potatoes. It's pretty rad in a butter-my-vag kinda way.
This reminded me of a thread i made before, "Can blind people dream?"
[QUOTE=Comcastic;20122797]Do blind people dream? If so of what?[/QUOTE] I imagine someone who has been blind all of their life can't visually dream because they have no idea what things look like. But people who have went blind can dream visually because they have memories of what things look like.
You know... it's like... all red.
It is a dimension of sight which does not affect it's intensity so much as it's general value, much like pitch of a sound. Some colours can be hard on the eyes to look at, as with a high pitched noise. That's my best attempt.
You can try, you won't get far though.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;20122684]You won't have a problem explaining black to them. Well, if you do count that as a colour.[/QUOTE] Being blind isn't seeing black, it's seeing nothing. You can no more explain sight to a blind man than you can explain seeing nothing to a sighted one.
It'd be like trying to explain music to a deaf man :/
They will never get it.
It would be possible if they became blind during life as they'd remember the colour. But I reckon it wouldn't be possible to someone born blind.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;20122916]It'd be like trying to explain music to a deaf man :/[/QUOTE] Or having a mute man explain what it's like to be mute to you.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20122922]They will never get it.[/QUOTE] Your avatar+your post= LMAO
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;20122684]You won't have a problem explaining black to them.[/QUOTE] The funny thing is that you don't know if they see blackness or something else.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;20122916]It'd be like trying to explain music to a deaf man :/[/QUOTE] Vibrations of objects.
It must really suck to be colour blind. Imagine not being able to see all the colours of the rainbow..
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