Re: [NTLK] attention deficit

From: James Elliott (james.elliott_at_newted.org)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 21:41:05 EDT


Exactly! What I perceive as a colour could be completely different
from what anyone else sees. I guess all that we know is that the
relationship between the colours is perceived the same way by all who
are "normal". I love thinking about that. It boggles the mind.

-James

>Hmmm, who are you calling "normal"?
>I had a friend who was colorblind. (he saw red/orange
>as green and greens as red/orange) This was a problem
>because he could never tell when his cell phone
>battery was charged! Charging was orange and charged
>was green. I made the suggestion that he just "think
>different" Green is charging and orange is charged!
>That got me to thinking, color is subjective, so what
>really IS normal?
>Ed
>web/gadget guru
>http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
>http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
>subdomain)

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