Does colour exist? (14 Jul 2003)

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Does colour exist? (14 Jul 2003)
We think of colour as an objective thing: Red is red and can’t be seen in any other way. But that's not so. The colour we perceive depends on things like the words we have in our language (our culture) to describe it, the other colours surrounding it and what the brain is expecting to see.

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