Re:What If Evolution Bred Reality Out of Us?
by orangecat on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @11:11PM
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What is color, really? I'm not sure i even know the answer to that.
Color is the classic quale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia), so if you did have a convincing answer to that you could be famous :)
You still have to wonder why the brain created color to differentiate wavelengths. If we could not see and were speculating on how you could discern wavelengths, maybe you would guess that there would be some sort of frequency pattern that differentiated. But no... color? What is color, really? I'm not sure i even know the answer to that.