How can we truly know if the colors we see are the true colors of the plants and animals around us if all the information(colors we see) have to be processed through organic eyes nerves and brains?

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How can we truly know if the colors we see are the true colors of the plants and animals around us if all the information(colors we see) have to be processed through organic eyes nerves and brains?

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There’s two ways to think about “True color”…in one sense, the true color _is_ what you see. The fact that you perceive something as a color means that is the color it is, because “color” is about what you experience when you look at something.

In another sense, the “True color” is just a description of the intensity of light of different wavelengths being reflected from an object. We can take a spectra of an object and measure just that, same as you’d measure the weight or length of an object.

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