Science never stops to amaze me! Do you know recently, our brilliant scientists have invented a microscopic camera that takes pictures of an object as a person sees or perceives it? A tiny chip is inserted near the eye of a person, somewhat like a tiny piercing. This chip can be controlled via software. The chip can be commanded to take the picture of an object from the signals that the eyes send to the person's brain.
When it was tested with a set of 1000-odd people, the picture of the same orange appeared in different colors for each individual. And without any doubt, every single person called the different shades as Orange color only!
Data shows that the color perceived by person A as Orange always appears blue to person B which is totally opposite in the RGB frame. Person B believes his or her perceived blue to be orange all his life.
Similarly, person C perceives the orange color of person A as purple. Whenever he or she sees orange color, he/she sees it as purple but calls it as orange. Person A, B, and C all call the same object as orange color irrespective of the shade their brain perceives.
How mind-boggling this is! Just imagine how different your world could be from your parents, spouse, sibling, or friend's world. Even the same person with whom we spent the maximum time of our life sees everything differently.
Let's rejoice in the colors of this world and I hope some scientists actually do this experiment sometime to prove a perceived concept. Till then I hope you enjoyed the unconventional imagination!
P.S. This is just a perceived concept. In my knowledge, no such experiment has been done.
Yes. I too have read about this. Although I didn't know that the difference between sight of two people could be this huge.
ReplyDeleteI have seen practical examples of this, when u notice that colour saturation on some family tv is too high or too low. And they find it normal.
Also like men can see less colours than females.
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Wow! That's great insight. I actually have not read it anywhere. I just had this idea and it fascinated me. I added a note also in the end that I don't know of any such experiment. It was just a way of catching attention - if there would be an experiment, it might be something like this
DeleteWoah!! I never heard this before!
ReplyDeleteThis is mind boggling and strangely satisfying at the same time. Explains how varied people are and why misunderstandings are so very common in even the closest of the relationships.
This is just an idea. Socho kabhi aisa ho to kya ho types :)
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