Do two People see the same Sunset the same Way?

[googleit6]

This question of perspective has been in my head for a few days now. Really, the general question is, can two people look at the same thing, and see it completly differently? This ties in to the whole "Glass half full/half empty" debate, which I also think is an interesting one.

For example, say two people, on opposite sides of the world, different culture, different tastes, different language, etc, saw the same sunset at the same time (Ignore the logistics of that), would their brains process it in the same way?
I'm talking both literally and figurativly, by the way. How their eyes could process the sunset, and the picture is sent to their brain, and also how they see what it symbolizes. Is it the end of a day, or the beginning of the night?

Another intersting question: Do you think their brains could process it in exactly the same way? If they were given a piece of paper and a pencil, and were told to describe it, would they ever write the same thing down?

What is your take on perspective?

 

[arsenicCatnip]

No two people see the same thing the same way. I could watch the sunset with my roommate, and she'd view it with her artist's eye, while I process it with a writer's brain.

 

[Limzz]

This question of perspective has been in my head for a few days now. Really, the general question is, can two people look at the same thing, and see it completly differently? This ties in to the whole "Glass half full/half empty" debate, which I also think is an interesting one.

For example, say two people, on opposite sides of the world, different culture, different tastes, different language, etc, saw the same sunset at the same time (Ignore the logistics of that), would their brains process it in the same way?
I'm talking both literally and figurativly, by the way. How their eyes could process the sunset, and the picture is sent to their brain, and also how they see what it symbolizes. Is it the end of a day, or the beginning of the night?

Another intersting question: Do you think their brains could process it in exactly the same way? If they were given a piece of paper and a pencil, and were told to describe it, would they ever write the same thing down?

What is your take on perspective?

All you can be entirely sure of is your own perception. Everything you know is based off of your personal sensory data. For example, try to prove that what you know as the color red is what everyone else sees. Or to get broader: how do you know you're not just a brain suspended in fluid. How do you know the earth exists? OK I'll stop but yeeaahhhh, makes you think.

 

[snowman6251]

I'm curious how colorblind people see the world. I wonder if a colorblind person has lived their whole life not realizing that the grass looks to them what yellow looks like to us and just assuming we all call that green.