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Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:20:22 2011 No.3949464 [Reply] [Original]

How would you describe colour to a blind person?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:21:22 2011 No.3949474 colors don't exist

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:23:22 2011 No.3949484 >>3949474 tell me what color 546nm is then

>>	TN5 !/sci/TN5.. Mon Oct 24 20:23:22 2011 No.3949485 "Colours are to vision what pitch is to audition."

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:24:22 2011 No.3949487 >>3949484 A greenish blue.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:25:22 2011 No.3949494 File: 2.17 MB, 286x210, 1314013389408.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >colour

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:26:22 2011 No.3949498 >546nm yellow-green

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:27:22 2011 No.3949503 >>3949494 >Being American >2011

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:28:22 2011 No.3949508 I'd give him a packet of skittles and tell him to taste the rainbow

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:29:22 2011 No.3949511 >>3949464 I would use analogies, most commonly with emotions and frequencies of sound. However studies have shown their visual areas can still function.

>>	OP Mon Oct 24 20:30:22 2011 No.3949514 More specifically, how would you describe to a blind person what red looks like. Or blue.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:42:22 2011 No.3949551 >How would you describe colour to a blind person? How would you describe light to a blind person? Fixed! How would you describe magnetoception to a woman?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 20:43:22 2011 No.3949554 http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1866