Understanding Perception: The Role of Our Senses in Interpreting Mass and Colors

[satyesu]

There is no color until the brain interprets wavelengths as such. Same for taste and smell; they are just chemicals until we use our senses. Sounds are vibrations until they hit our ears. Do things have mass before we touch them?

 

[fresh_42]

Do things have mass before we touch them?

Yes.

 

[satyesu]

How do you know?

 

[Nugatory]

How do you know?

Experiments to measure the mass of objects provide definite results even when no human brains or other sensory apparatus is involved. This is altogether different from the example of color that you cited above, where until we just have light of a particular wavelength until the brain interprets it.

 

[fresh_42]

How do you know?

I'm humble enough to know that nature doesn't need ME to be. And for several hours each day, I don't touch my bed. Yet, it is always there, where I left it.

This thread bears any basis. For discussions whether measurements or observations affects reality, please search for the dozens of dozens of threads in the Quantum Physics Forum about QM interpretations. But be warned: they always run into nowhere land. For this reason I close this thread, formally because it is not based on scientific material, informally because there is no chance, that anything useful develops from the question.

Thread closed.