The Color of the Eyes

When you talk about like other animals and the colors they see, can we only glean that from like looking at their rods and cones and stuff? Or is there a way to like plug a USB port into a dog's eyeball and be like, there we go. So people are working on it. But I think that that's not how it's done and that it is done by looking at the molecules themselves and seeing that when a photon with a wavelength of a certain wavelength hits it, it activates. That is my understanding. And a lot of it is math and estimates of like figuring out if it contains cones and rods, what those are, what colors those molecules can detect and get

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