if colors are an illusion created by the brain what does the world look like outside the eye.

Question

if colors are an illusion created by the brain what does the world look like outside the eye.

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

There’s not really a way to answer that question.

The only reason we see colours is that our eyes have evolved to be capable of detecting a specific range of wavelengths of radiation and our brains have evolved to be able to extract some information from how exactly those waves behave.

Outside of the eye, the world doesn’t “look” like anything – there’s just a load of radiation flying around in the form of waves of different frequencies, reflecting off surfaces in specific ways.