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"Real" for humans, is whatever we experience directly. Therefore, colour is as real to a blind man as snow to a person who's born in the equator. Is anger "rea

• gspr 6y ago
  > "Real" for humans, is whatever we experience directly. Therefore, colour is as real to a blind man as snow to a person who's born in the equator. This sounds like crazy talk to me. Of course those two things are entirely real. The fact that we can deduce reality and communicate it to others in a truth-preserving manner is a fundamental underpinning of society. I think it's dangerous to suggest that reality is relative.
• bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  The blind man can hear a color described, but that is not very useful for something that is visual. The person born in the equator can have the feeling of snow described and by walking into a walk in freezer they can understand cold, they probably already understand water, examples can be made to them. Furthermore they can see videos of major snowstorms from other places. Thus there are different levels of real between the color for the blind man, and the snow for the person born in the equator.