• Question: do we see different colours as what i see as blue midht be someone elses red

    Asked by Ted bowles to Adam, Adele, Deborah, Matt, Samantha on 16 Jun 2017.
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      Matthew Lee answered on 16 Jun 2017:


      I dont actually know! I would say maybe but only too a certain extent. Colour blind people being an exception. If we all have the same rod and cone cells (these are the cells in the eye that detect light and colour) and they all function the same then they will all produce the same signals, what might be different though is how we interpret those signals in the brain. If you get signal A and i get Signal A but my brain says signal A is actually Signal AA then that interpretation will be slightly different to your brains so will produce a slightly different image.

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