22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
11:53 p.m.
Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-07-22 23:24:24 +0200:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:56:41PM -0700, James Warden
wrote:
A very nice analogy, taking us even deeper into fuzzy territory...
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.
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Regards,
Philipp
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"Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen
offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
This is
probably closer to the object size comparison.
I wonder how well we can judge something like twice the
brightness.
or smelling a perfume twice stronger :) It reminds me a little about intensive and
extensive variables
in physics. That may well be unrelated though ...
I don't think it is directly related to that particular
difference. But it certainly is related to a more general
form of it - seeing each 'unit' in its own domain, and
some domains being fully isolated from others.
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.
Ciao,
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FA