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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I've always wondered if that's why different people like different colors. One person loves blue while another prefers red.
I've also wondered similarly about taste and food preferences.
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When it comes to colors, there may be an argument in favor that colors are more or less the same or very similar for everyone with "normal" color vision; the color red, for instance, is broadly linked to nervousness, violence, or sexual arousal. Clearly this is an evolutionary adaptation to the pigmentation of blood. We don't see blood every day, yet the color does elicit a similar response in a vast majority of people. While it's not a "proof" (as seeing colors remains a fundamentally subjective experience), I struggle convincing myself that what I perceive as "blue" would elicit in someone else the same response as me when I see "red".
In a similar way, blue is known to be a peaceful and relaxing color; just throwing an idea here, but it could maybe be due to a similar evolutionary process, whereby plains (where a lot of the sky can be seen) are safer to humanoids than forests or jungles.
As for food, we have documented examples that some substances taste differently for different people, although they still fall into categories of sort (e.g. "citrusy" vs "soapy" for cilantro). I'd think there's likely more variability here.
Just my 2 cents!
