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I agree color exists, but it

Submitted by Serendip Visitor (guest) on Wed, 10/28/2015 - 5:32pm.

I agree color exists, but it exists as a figment. What the author is getting at is not that there are not different wavelengths of light, but how we interprate color is completely subjective. There is not such thing as color as you describe it. Your chameleon argument just misses the point, chameleons don't change color to match environment anyways, you're thinking about octopi. More importantly, the color change octopi use is designed to mess with pattern recognition, it just so happens that most animals have the same way of interpreting patterns. There is no such thing as color.

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