Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 106 of 171

Color doesn't exist outside the brain

As mentioned earlier, color is a well-known example of something that does not exist outside of our brains. There are no colors in the observer-independent physical world. The photons that hit our eyes travel in wavelengths.…

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