How do humans perceive color? Is it just the way we see it or is color actually there?

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How do humans perceive color? Is it just the way we see it or is color actually there?

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Color is our Brain interpreting wavelengths of light.

So yes, the light entering your eye has specific wavelengths that we can measure for each color that we see.

But, that actual “color” that we see, red, blue, green, etc etc, that is something that our brain in creating based on the wavelengths of light hitting our eyeballs. Our brain interprets that information and then makes what we “see”.

So, there’s actually no real way to know that what you see as “red” and what I see as “red” are actually the same thing, or if our brains are interpreting that wavelength of light two different ways.

We just assume that we see it the same way because we have the same kinds of cells in our eyes that detect light and have the same kinds of brain cells, so, why would it be any different?