/lit/ - Literature

>>16305232
>"Color" is generally understood to be visible light interacting with the eye.
It actually is not since your visual field is created by the brain.

But even if it were the case, you still haven't come up with a satisfying answer. New colours can exist, they are just not conceivable by a human being having qualia - they are not a function of visible light itself, as can be seen by people that can not pass this test (pic related). They have no qualitative experience that allows them to differentiate these two colours and yet these two colours are within the visible light spectrum. Their VISIBLE spectrum is reduced and confused. In the same way a dogs visible spectrum goes from black to white. We can imagine an animal that includes infrared or ultraviolet in its visible spectrum - we can not however conceive what "colour" will it be seeing because that would mean a new colour.