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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Being color blind, I doubt whether this is true at all. Two people might look at the same object and their eyes and brains might process it differently so that they see something different.
Even for non-color-blind people. They may be might be able to distinguish the different colors, but who knows whether they actually see the same thing when they look at something blue. This might explain why people prefer different colors, because they might look different to different people.
We have ways to determine the ‘objective’ colors of things though. Color is nothing more than light (reflected or emitted) of a certain frequency. You can measure that frequency with a device. We have defined that frequencies between two certain values are red, pink, blue, etc.
It still doesn’t mean that everyone sees blue in the same way.
Edited to add: colors are a very human thing. There are many frequencies of light our eyes cannot see. Another creature might see more or less colors. A bat using sonar may not see any colors at all. Or would their brains translate the sonar frequencies to colors, so that different textures or distances appear as different colors to them?
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