• Is it possible to explain a color to a blind man?
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You can if he has been able too see before.
[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] Probabily hard for most people to understand this, but they don't see black. They just don't see anything, and it's not like when you have your eyes closed. Both ways, it's hard to describe what which one feels like.
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[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;20122689]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[/QUOTE] Beat me to it :saddowns:
Simple answer; No.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;20122916]It'd be like trying to explain music to a deaf man :/[/QUOTE] Am I the only one who found this analogy to be incredibly depressing?
It is actually quite simple. The blind man "sees" with his hands. He feels objects and can tell them apart by their shape, size and weight. You simply tell him that the same thing is with colors on objects. Our eyes can tell objects apart by color, shape and size and tell the blind man that different colors makes stuff look good for our eyes as in different shapes and material makes stuff feel good for his hands. :v:
[QUOTE=fear me;20220662]Am I the only one who found this analogy to be incredibly depressing?[/QUOTE] I would hate to go deaf, I mean, I can't imagine how I could survive without sound, without music, without the harmonic waves in my ear.
[QUOTE=Ldesu;20221316]It is actually quite simple. The blind man "sees" with his hands. He feels objects and can tell them apart by their shape, size and weight. You simply tell him that the same thing is with colors on objects. Our eyes can tell objects apart by color, shape and size and tell the blind man that different colors makes stuff look good for our eyes as in different shapes and material makes stuff feel good for his hands. :v:[/QUOTE] That sounds disgustingly sexual.
[QUOTE=Vince323;20123069]This reminds me of those threads about if people saw colours differently, IE my blue is different from your blue, but we call them both blue. :psyduck:[/QUOTE] I thought I was the only one that thought like that.
[QUOTE=Lankist;20122914]Being blind isn't seeing black, it's seeing nothing. [/QUOTE] Seeing "nothing" is impossible. Your brain is always going to display something.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;20244843]Seeing "nothing" is impossible. Your brain is always going to display something.[/QUOTE] Oh? Got a source to that?
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;20122689]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[/QUOTE] Yeah! Jim Carrey was funny in that! :downs:
This reminds me of Wittgenstein's beetle in a box thought experiment. You should look into it. It's very interesting.
It would be impossible
Blue..... Well it's....... Blue
Make them take LSD? They'll see colors for a while.
you could like describe shades to them though .. like temperatures, or weight/area
can you explain blindness to a color? [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("Divide by zero" - garry))[/highlight]
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