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If colors are perceived by light reflection and seen differently through a variety of species, then the colors we know aren't actually the colors we think they are, amirite?

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Even among humans we see colors differently. The average human has 3 color receptors (trichromatic), but some only have 2 (dichromatic) and some even have 4 (tetrachromatic).

@Thenaturelover Even among humans we see colors differently. The average human has 3 color receptors (trichromatic), but some only...

True, which further elaborates on the idea that colors are technically not real and only perceptions

@jodzdzownica Literally the entire world is just what your brain perceives through its neurons

There still is a world if your blind... I have heard our eyes and mind invent what they are preciving in your proriferial vision, basically an hallucination, so maybe blind people actually perceive the world more accurately because their senses must be more attuned and accurate, and we sometimes can't even trust our own vision

@Milkzey True, which further elaborates on the idea that colors are technically not real and only perceptions

Yep, everything is just as real as the goop in our heads interprets it to be. If life never existed, would anything "exist"?

I love the idea of someone's blue looking pink...and we would never be able to tell

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