On 23 July 2010 08:37, Arnold Krille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 22 July 2010 23:53:14 Philipp Überbacher wrote: >> Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-07-22 23:24:24 +0200: >> > We all agree on what 'red' means. Because we have learned >> > the meaning of that word by association. But do we 'see' >> > the same thing ? AFAIK, that is impossible to verify.
We all agree on what red means; red is red; we agree that red is red. Redness is not reducible to anything else, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia >> This however is a thing I did wonder about. The general question of >> whether perception is the same for every human, whether colors are the >> same and so on. It most likely is hard to impossible to verify, but I >> have to assume it is at least similar. It's a very nice question for >> sure. > > The problem is that if you 'ask' people to describe what they see and feel, > they all use the same words and meaning because they where taught since > childhood. > > I think one way to 'verify' is to let people express their reception of > something in an artistic way. Be it words in literature or colors and shapes > in arts or melodies in music. > Only problem is that you have to interpret that again;-) > > Have fun, > > Arnold _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
