Message impulses to the brain are converted. What we see is not really what we see. If nerve fibers from our eyes were crossed with the nerve fibers from our ears, we could hear color and see sounds. Human retinas process three types of cones which are sensitive respectively to three basic wavelengths, the wavelengths we interpret as red, blue, and green, the primary colors for light as on a TV screen. The Mind Manufactures Experience 1.
Color is an experience in our minds.
There is no color whatever in the external world of things. There is no color in the rainbow. The ocean is not deep blue. Sound- tree in a forest. All flavors are merely combinations of these four.