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Originally Posted by pharmakos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^ color is not a property of light, it is a property of our eyes/brains

and not everyone sees color the same way -- see: Tetrachromacy

Ok, granted, not everyone sees color the same way and yes, color is created in the brain. But the wavelengths of light that produce a certain color is a physical property of the light. That's why everyone who isn't color blind can say "red and blue make purple". If our perception of mixed colors are purely a function of our mind and had no physical basis, the color wheel wouldn't make sense to everyone the same way. One person would see red and blue mixed together to make green while another would see it make purple. So the mixing of colors does have objective physical properties, which are then translated into color (qualia) later. So your nihilism regarding understanding how colors mix is misplaced.