What does it mean that color a “visual phenomenon”? Does color not exist outside of our brains?

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What does it mean that color a “visual phenomenon”? Does color not exist outside of our brains?

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To add to the complexity, we’ve evolved to have retinal cells that can discern certain wave lengths clearly and interpolate others. So if something is red our red receptors see it clearly, but if it is orange, or magenta, our red and blue and green receptors each see it imperfectly, and our brain pools their inputs, and figures out it is orange, or magenta