i've come up with some strange theories in my day, but this one may take the cake. this is something i've been talking about for years, first mentioned to my buddy mike all the way back in middle school i believe, and mentioned to several people since then.
mike is one of the smartest guys i know. salutatorian of our class, straight a's at middlebury, works as an environmental geologist in boston now. when i gave him my theory on color, he just shook his head, told me i was being stupid as usual. so i asked him to explain why it wasn't possible, and he went off on this rant about the color spectrum and physics - whatever he said probably did successfully debunk my idea, but because i couldn't follow what the hell he was talking about, i still think it's interesting and maybe even possible. here goes:
when i see red, i see red. like a stop sign or a fire hydrant. and when you see a stop sign or a fire hydrant, you too see red. but who's to say that my red isn't your purple, and your red my blue? the same can be said for all the colors. because you really can't DESCRIBE a color without just naming something that is that color, i think it's hard to disprove this. imagine, if every single day we were all walking around, going about our business, but our physical perceptions of the things around us were just completely twisted. would anyone know?
is this (im)possible?
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Well isn't most colour simply the way your brain reads the light bouncing off objects? Light leaves object, enters eyes, goes to brain and subconscious part of the brain says, "BLUE" to the conscious part of the brain.
If in some sci-fi theory, we could alter the way the brain interprets the message, could we literally change how one SEES the world?
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, if you can trick your brain to interpret colours differently, what is their REAL/NATURAL/BASE colour BEFORE we see them as we want to see them?!?
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