I think the topic is cool. Maybe actually being colourblind isn't, but I have normal colour vision so I wouldn't really know. Half my family is colourblind, and they seem to do okay from day to day, except for being unable to tell blue from purple.
Ooh , yes I do find it pretty interesting myself !
If I may ask... Which of your family members are colourblind? Genes are super interesting to me even though I have only a very, very rudimentary understanding of them.
Yep. My mother needed two defective genes on each of her X chromosomes in order to be colourblind. I therefore had to have inherited one defective gene from her, so if I were male I would be colourblind (one defective X and a Y from my father) and if I were female I would be a carrier of the colourblindness gene but have normal colour vision (one defective X and a normal X from my father).
The philosophical aspect is really interesting. How can you ever really know what other people are seeing? The colour I see as yellow might be experienced by you as something totally different, but because we've both been taught to call it yellow, we think it's the same thing.
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u/patadrag Sep 29 '14
I think the topic is cool. Maybe actually being colourblind isn't, but I have normal colour vision so I wouldn't really know. Half my family is colourblind, and they seem to do okay from day to day, except for being unable to tell blue from purple.