I get that it’s a joke, but bottom line? The names of colors are just the way our brains interpret specific wavelengths, and wavelength is objective. So it doesn’t really matter, because the wavelength of the photon is the same regardless of how our brain perceives it
But that’s correlation, the way the brain conceptualizes it into a “color” in the mental model, well that’s the qualia stuff referenced in another comment.
Wavelength may be objective, but the signal that a brain receives may be different if the cells which are supposed to receive that objective wavelength aren’t functioning correctly.
Like if I make you wear rose coloured glasses, it doesn’t matter what colours I show you, you won’t be able to name them correctly because the objective stimulus is literally coloured before it makes it to your brain.
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I get that it’s a joke, but bottom line? The names of colors are just the way our brains interpret specific wavelengths, and wavelength is objective. So it doesn’t really matter, because the wavelength of the photon is the same regardless of how our brain perceives it
But that’s correlation, the way the brain conceptualizes it into a “color” in the mental model, well that’s the qualia stuff referenced in another comment.
Wavelength may be objective, but the signal that a brain receives may be different if the cells which are supposed to receive that objective wavelength aren’t functioning correctly.
Like if I make you wear rose coloured glasses, it doesn’t matter what colours I show you, you won’t be able to name them correctly because the objective stimulus is literally coloured before it makes it to your brain.