[pharmakos]

you know whats trippy? for the most part the spectrum makes sense in order. combine red and yellow and you get orange, the color right between red and yellow. combine yellow and blue and you get green, the color right between yellow and blue.

but to get purple you combine red and blue, and purple is way the fuck at the opposite end of the spectrum from red.

the fuck?

would almost make sense if it were cyclical, but its not -- higher frequencies than purple do not look red. (at least not to humans)

i suppose color itself is a qualia, though, and not actually a property of matter itself.