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I was having a really hard time after our discussion about color the other day in class. I could not and still cannot accept the idea that there isn't really any color in the world if there are no cones of an eye with a nervous system attached to see it. To carry on with the whole tree in the forest thing, is this saying that if every organism with the requirements to see and interpret the color of the world all closed their eyes at the same time, the world would suddenly go devoid of color? I find that to be a preposterous idea. Maybe I just don't have the proper mindset or am lacking some important part of the equation here, but not only can I not imagine something like that happening, it seems rather selfish of we who can see (especially us humans). It seems as though it places way too much importance on the so-called more advanced organisms of the world. There are other things in the world that are just important. What about the world before there was life that could perceive color? Was nothing colored then? Were the skies and oceans and primitive plant life colorless simply because there were no eyes and nervous systems yet? I find it hard to believe that when those came into being, suddenly the whole world changed because of it. Again, maybe this is just something that my little mind refuses to try to understand, or maybe I am misinterpreting what was said in class, but as it is now, this idea has been quite troubling to me since that class. If what I am thinking is not quite what was meant, I hope someone corrects me...