Where would our glasses go?

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June 5, 2006 at 1:57 pm #1038080
limey
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If we didnt have ears how would we wear glasses? lmao if we all had no ears but really bad eye sight and contacts hadnt been invented?
June 5, 2006 at 2:26 pm #1078000
pno
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June 5, 2006 at 2:35 pm #1077996
BioTech
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Or these hideous things…
June 5, 2006 at 2:59 pm #1077992
JE5
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On that subject, I sometimes get these detachment from reality moments where I can look at certain ergonomically designed objects as if i’m looking through the eyes of an alien and then I wonder how different things would look if we were totally different.
June 5, 2006 at 3:25 pm #1078001
stax
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and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red
June 5, 2006 at 4:19 pm #1078002
raverbaby
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stax wrote:

and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red

thats one that often puzzles me too!
June 5, 2006 at 11:14 pm #1078008
somna
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stax wrote:

and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red

Aaaah, but what colour does it SMELL like?:you_crazy :biggreen:
June 6, 2006 at 12:51 am #1077993
JE5
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somna wrote:

Aaaah, but what colour does it SMELL like?:you_crazy :biggreen:

I’m sure someone with synaesthesia could answer that one for you.
June 6, 2006 at 11:47 pm #1078009
somna
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JE:5 wrote:

I’m sure someone with synaesthesia could answer that one for you.

:you_smart :you_smart :you_smart :you_smart :you_smart
June 7, 2006 at 12:06 am #1078003
Raj
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somna wrote:

Aaaah, but what colour does it SMELL like?:you_crazy :biggreen:

it smells a funny colour..:crazy_fre
June 7, 2006 at 1:38 am #1078010
somna
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rajsuspect wrote:

it smells a funny colour..:crazy_fre

What, like greeurple? I prefer the pungent aroma of bluellow, myself. :wtf: :bigsmile:
June 7, 2006 at 8:00 am #1078004
Raj
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since all colour naming is learned by people pointing at them when we are kids, i move that there is no guarantee that we all see the same thing and call it red:crazy_fre

what i can guarantee is that we all call specific things particular names because that is what we were taught they were; pretty much like most of the things we know that we did not learn on our own – they are just what we were taught by people who were taught by others:you_smart

this applies to colour naming, cultural behaviours, rascism, attitudes to life, etc in fact all knowledge is acquired like this

so next time you say i do/dont like something stop and think ‘do i like/not like it’ or is it just something i was taught? the answer can be very liberating
:crazy_fre:crazy_fre:crazy_fre
June 7, 2006 at 2:01 pm #1077995
TechnicianKC
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stax wrote:

and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red

We don’t know for sure how you see it. We do know for sure, because we have the technology to determine light frequencies of individual colours, that large numbers of people do see the same colour.
June 7, 2006 at 2:28 pm #1078005
Jon_tooth
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stax wrote:

and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red

Fuck off.
June 7, 2006 at 2:40 pm #1078006
shanethepain
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stax wrote:

and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red

that is something that has puzzled me for ages, thank fuck i’m not mad:horay:
June 7, 2006 at 3:20 pm #1077998
mikeid22
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stax wrote:

and how do we know that the colour i see as say red is the same colour as you know as red

Its all a reflection anywayz !
June 7, 2006 at 3:32 pm #1077994
General Lighting
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some colour definitions are agreed by common consenus and even international standards (particularly when they represent safety critical identifiers like traffic signals, electric cable colour codes etc).

Others do have differences between cultures and individuals definitiions

Wikipedia has a massive article about this. It is long and complicated but there are some cool computer generated pictures as well 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour
June 8, 2006 at 10:12 am #1077997
Mongo
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limey wrote:

If we didnt have ears how would we wear glasses? lmao if we all had no ears but really bad eye sight and contacts hadnt been invented?

but if we didn’t have ears we’d be fish and wouldn’t need glasses 🙂

btw our ears are fishs gills 🙂

evolutioncore
June 8, 2006 at 12:37 pm #1078007
limey
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lol but fish dont talk! a hah! lol :surprised
June 10, 2006 at 8:06 pm #1078011
somna
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Mongo wrote:

but if we didn’t have ears we’d be fish and wouldn’t need glasses 🙂

btw our ears are fishs gills 🙂

evolutioncore

How do you know that fish don’t need glasses? That’s probably why they all swim in schools, the fish-geezer at the front is the only one who can actually see where he is going, the rest are just following him as they can’t see any further ahead!

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June 12, 2006 at 12:25 am #1077999
mikeid22
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somna wrote:

How do you know that fish don’t need glasses? That’s probably why they all swim in schools, the fish-geezer at the front is the only one who can actually see where he is going, the rest are just following him as they can’t see any further ahead!

And the reason they go around in circles is coz he doesn’t want to admint he lost his contact lenses !!!!
June 13, 2006 at 3:17 pm #1078013
Pablo the Hippy
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mikeid22 wrote:

And the reason they go around in circles is coz he doesn’t want to admint he lost his contact lenses !!!!

/me LOL
June 15, 2006 at 6:03 pm #1078012
somna
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mikeid22 wrote:

And the reason they go around in circles is coz he doesn’t want to admint he lost his contact lenses !!!!

LOL!!
And the reason he lost his contact lenses is cos he couldn’t put them in properly cos he has fins!!
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