> > So how do you know that what you perceive as red isn't perceived as a totally different colour by another person? Your eyes and brain define a certain wavelength of light as what you have been told is red, but maybe what everyone calls red is actually brown or blue. (Don't ask me to whom, though.)
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> I thought the exact same thing when I was in second grade (half a lifetime ago)! That is way moby that you would think the same thing! I thought, "Well, what if what I think is red is green to someone else, but they call it red because that's what they've been taught?" That would be spooky.
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> Morris Cecil "Deranged minds think alike" Glalet
> Tue 12 Oct A.D. 1999

After my little brother learned the alphabet but before he learned to spell, I tried to teach him that "B-R-A-T" spelled "Ryan." My stepmother stopped me before I could make it stick. I really wanted him to go to school and write "Brat" at the top of his paper.