Red

Our Human Resources professor asked the class today to try to explain the color red without referring to an experience. Without using an experience related to sight, sound, feeling or smell, try to explain what the color red is. It's impossible.

Red is something that we know is red because we relate it to the color of apples. The color of the firetruck that we saw when we were little. The color of the dress that your crush wore. Without those experiences the color red is indescribable. 

What's the point of the story? It's just that so much of our knowledge comes through experiences. What we see, feel, tough, hear and smell constitutes the great majority of the make-up of the knowledge that you hold. You may learn what RGB values constitute the color red but, to truly understand what red is, your brain has to relate it to an experience.

I'm out here in Barcelona experiencing a new country, new friends and a new perspective on life. You can't beat that kind of wealth of knowledge.

And, to lighten up this post.