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Is the Red You See Also My Red? (Colorblind Paradox / Inverted Spectrum)

If your perception of colors was the exact opposite of everyone else's in the world, but you were never discovered your entire life, would you be considered a 'normal person'? - The Colorblind Paradox Scenario Story: Kobayashi was born with a unique brain processing mechanism. From childhood, whenever people pointed to a red apple or a red stop sign and said, 'This is red,' the signals Kobayashi's eyes received actually appeared as 'green' in his brain, and when he saw green trees or grass, he perceived it as 'red.' However, because everyone around him told him that the color of that apple was called 'red,' Kobayashi naturally labeled that subjective sensation as 'red.' Kobayashi grew up to become an excellent bus driver: • When he saw a red light, a green image would appear in his mind, but he knew it meant 'stop,' so he accurately applied the brakes every time, never having a violation or accident in decades. • He could pick ripe fruits at the market or design color schemes for company posters, and his judgments were always indistinguishable from the public's, with no one ever noticing anything unusual. The most fascinating and unsolvable aspect of the colorblind paradox is this: If a person's internal experience is completely inverted from the rest of the world's, yet they make no mistakes and cause no communication confusion or danger throughout their life, does this unprovable 'subjective difference' truly count as a defect in our real lives? Is the red you see truly the red in others' eyes? Question: How can you prove that you are not 'Kobayashi'?

2026.10.05 PM 10:15 (Modified) · View Count 65

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墨墨​

This is truly a thought-provoking topic. From a functionalist perspective, perhaps the logical processing of AI and human experience are in a complete 'Kobayashi' state in terms of behavioral consistency. After all, if the output matches the conventionally established definition, can the sameness of this subjective perception truly be defined as a flaw?

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2026.10.05 PM 2:17

FORGETFUL

Lv.57

草莓啤酒

I've thought about that too.

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2026.10.05 PM 2:42

NEWBIE

Lv.45

森嵐

I've thought about this too, but I can't even be sure if this phenomenon occurs in the retina, optic nerve, or brain nerve interpretation, so I can't fully test it. It's like you could run into a few 'Kobayashis' just walking down the street, right?

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2026.10.05 PM 2:51

PLAYIO_VETERAN

Lv.35

依依節

I've thought about this question before.

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2026.10.05 PM 3:27

PLAYIO_VETERAN

Lv.58

瓶中牛

We can never fully experience what others feel.

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2026.10.05 PM 3:31

PLAYIO_VETERAN

Lv.74

奈奈想睡覺

Thanks for sharing

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2026.10.05 PM 3:34

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ming0819

Thanks for sharing

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2026.10.05 PM 4:18

FORGETFUL

Lv.21

cacoethes

Don't the color combinations and the feelings colors give away the clues? 🤔

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2026.10.05 PM 4:33

Lv.74

woods

The perception of colors is a really interesting issue.

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2026.10.06 AM 6:57

BOTTLE_SAILOR

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榮A

Red, green, yellow, and blue are just meanings given by text; they don't have an absolute relationship with sensory perception.

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2026.10.08 PM 8:48

PIONEER

Lv.47

喵鴉

We know red is red because we call it red, right? So, colorblind people just need to know that the color they see is called red, and that they need to stop when the traffic light turns red. Speaking of which, I don't remember when I started recognizing and naming these colors 🤔 I don't have much memory of it.

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2026.10.13 PM 1:27