If I could not see colors could you help me perceive them?

[cyberninja45]

dsgrue3 said:

cyberninja45 said:

Ok you mean they would overlap each other.

But isn't that a function of our brain now and the reason we see different "colors" now is because our brain is making sense or interpreting the different wavelengths of light. So if our brain is somehow able to see infrared would it not be in a "new color" to distinguish it from other wavelengths.

Yes, overlap.

I don't think it would be a "new color" really. I mean, if we were to look at fire for example, it already has blue, red, yellow in it, I just think would be more foggy like the thermal imaging we see.

Could it be that in the absence of the mind ability to create a "new color" and distinguish it from the rest of stuff we see, that is why it would overlap and  fog everything else that we see. In other words in the absence of a "sixth sense" to detect this "new" wavelength (like infrared) our brain would use one of our current senses to try and perceive what it is, in this case using sight, but since there is an inability to perceive a new color it mixes everything up or overlaps, a sort of malfunction.

Kind of like what would happen if we could see sound or hear light, it would mess with our clarity of things.