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In that picture I think it looks greenish-blue! But our neighbor used to have a car that I considered purple and my dad swore was blue, so I know how you feel.

My high school psychology teacher told us her brother is red-green color blind, and he describes the color of peanut butter as green. I don't know if that means he perceives things other people tell him are green in the same way as he perceives the actual color of peanut butter, or what. But I think it's a very interesting idea that we all perceive color slightly differently. I wonder if any of it is cultural; in semantics class we talked about how different languages have different color scales- one language would have two words for slightly different colors, but another language would have only one word that applied to both colors. I wonder if this just shows the struggle of different people to apply labels to concepts that are not actually easily distinguished.

I would also really appreciate examples of what we talk about in class. It seems that we either talk about vague stuff like mind vs. brain without using scientific evidence, or we go into detail about the nervous system, but don't apply it to the questions we have raised when making our model of the nervous system.