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Colors do exist as named segments of the visual spectrum. The internal experience of each color in our minds, is something separate and different from that ext
by tux1968 9y ago
Colors do exist as named segments of the visual spectrum. The internal experience of each color in our minds, is something separate and different from that external stimulus.
What did I get wrong?
- dqpb 9y agoPeople are very uncomfortable with abstractions, to the extent that they claim they don't really exist.
- olavk 9y agoIt is more complicated. For example, the color magenta does not correspond to a single segment of the EM spectrum. Due to how the eyes work, magenta is caused by light of two different wavelength. This is the reason magenta is not in the rainbow even though it is one of the primary colors (e.g. one of the colors used in printer ink). So the experience of color is very much determined by the design of the sensory organs.
- tux1968 9y agoOkay. However the main point is there is something objective, and external to the observer, that is being perceived. That phenomena no matter how complex or disjointed, can reasonably be labelled color. The experience of color, even with all the intricacies and deficiencies of human perception, is another matter. When I ask you to think of the color blue, you can recall the experience with no need for the visual stimuli. The word can refer to parts of the EM spectrum or to the experience, or both.