The Mortal Mamba

Sitting idle on this saturday a thought struck me about reality.

Whatever we see and feel, does it exist in reality ?

If it exists, does it exist the way we see it ? 

I saw a cat out of the window – it looked orange to me, does it look orange to other cats as well ? Does it look orange to other humans as well ? 

Sure, I can not ask another cat about the color (we don’t have that technology yet), but I can definitely ask another fellow human whether that cat is orange and it’s highly possible that they will answer that it is orange, but what’s the proof that my definition of orange is the same as that of his definition of orange. There is no way to prove it. 

I see there is a phone kept on my desk, but is it really black and cuboidal? To me it looks black because human eyes are evolved in a way to perceive the color of the object, the color they radiate and appear cuboidal because we have evolved to get a sense of three dimensions. But what is color ? There is truly nothing like color, it is just electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths. Black color is just a mini component of the wide spectrum of electromagnetic waves and our eyes can not derive any meaning of it, it just simply ignores it. So, is the phone really black ? or it is something else but the brain is creating an image of it in black color ?

So the first level conclusion I put is : 

• Everything is constructed in our mind, the brain doesn’t see anything directly, it is sitting in a black box (skull). 
• The brain creates an image of our surroundings via the signals it receives from our eyes, skins, ear, etc. It ignores what it can not understand. What it can understand it creates a hallucinated version (or transformed version) for us to perceive , e.g color is a transformed version of the electromagnetic waves, sound is a transformed version of the air pressure changes.
• There is no way to prove it if 2 humans are hearing the same sound, seeing the same thing or feeling the same thing. Sure, 2 humans can possibly agree that apples and blood have the same color but it can not be proven that the “redness” of apples for one human is the same as that of another human.

P.S : This was just a short post as I am still exploring this thought. I will put a more detailed writeup on it soon!