Perception

So, I was surfing youtube the other day, and I found this really cool video about perception and how the brain might interpret senses differently from other brains. I remember one time when I was a kid, we were at Six Flags Astroworld (now bankrupt and no longer in existence, sadly). I saw a bright green bench and suddenly wondered if "my" green was the same green as other people's green. What if, for example, that shade of green was actually orange to someone else, but they learned it as green? The only reason we can communicate colors is not because we see the same exact colors, but because we coordinated certain colors with one another's perceptions. I remember trying to explain it to my mom at the time, but I couldn't make sense of it to her, and I eventually gave up on it.

I showed this video to Kyle, and he had the exact same realization happen to him at one point. When he was on his mission, he tried to explain his epiphany to his companion with no success. Unfortunately for him, his companion was colorblind and took offense at what he was trying to say, and so Kyle gave up on it and dropped the subject.

I doubt I was able to explain myself very well, but this guy has done a marvelous job of it! (He also references to a blind guy's channel, and that also turned out to be very cool.)