The colour conundrum
Discovery
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Is Color Consistency the Key to Seeing Colors?
We construct colors in our brains, and we construct them so that we can discern things about those objects that we care about. We want to know what materials they are made from, whether we should eat them, whether they are poisonous or delicious. But we need color on e to do that, because if the colours we saw continually changed as the light shining on them changed, then we couldn't use colour in that way. It wouldn't tell us anything meaningful about the objects. So you imagine that w it's impossible imagine it, because it's like dorothy in the wizard of oz stepping out of the black and white world into the technicalo of of oz. That one will remain
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