(May 31, 2012 at 2:25 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(May 31, 2012 at 10:58 am)Darwinian Wrote: Then don't compose your post as if it were an absolute fact then otherwise of course people are going to call you out.
Actually colour does not exist.
Quote:The first thing to remember is that colour does not actually exist… at least not in any literal sense. Apples and fire engines are not red, the sky and sea are not blue, and no person is objectively "black" or "white".
What exists is light. Light is real.
The grey tiles on the left look blue, and the grey tiles on the right look yellow You can measure it, hold it and count it (well … sort-of). But colour is not light. Colour is wholly manufactured by your brain.
How do we know this? Because one light can take on any colour… in our mind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14421303
Yes, you could argue that nothing really exists other than in your brain, all that is really out there is a mass of atoms bouncing around, its only in your brain that any sense is made of them all. Maybe reality was created 1 second ago with the illusion of age, that can't be shown to be false either. But most people don't think that and most people live with the idea of colour being real too.
