The Inverted Spectrum Illusion

I suspect that red by itself doesn't look like anything in the same way as when you are only looking at the blue sky. Redness is basically some kind of stationary property of a surface. It cannot be rotated into other colors. And that's why I also don't think that the inverted spectrum illusion would work because I don't think there is any essence of red beyond its relational context. So functionally, colors are a particular kind of mathematical object. That still doesn't explain why you experience them. But you've experienced them all along the line, right? Like if you are the end result of 3.8 billion years of evolution, you've probably seen red. You've probably experienced

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