ELI5- What color are objects actually?

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If things are a certain color because they absorb all color waves except the certain wave length they reflect, then we are seeing a reflected color and not the actual color right?

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Yep. Color is super subjective. Depends on the what kind of eyes the observer has. Replicants and Cortana like AIs ‘see’ much more than humans cuz they have different photreceptors. Animals too have different photreceptors. Basically if you the same undamaged set of photoreceptors, you see the same thing. Otherwise different colours and possibly more wavelengths. You could see radiation if your eyes were the same as an iPhone camera.

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