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What is the true colour of an object?
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If colour is human perception how would objects look like in objective reality?

Forgive the dumbness of the question(s)

I don’t know if this question even makes sense as “what it would look like” in itself posits a viewpoint of an observer and without defining the observer it doesn’t make sense.

Its so confusing and unclear…does that mean objects are in reality invisible?

Light shines on an object, it absorbs some wavelengths and reflects some. If the reflected wavelength that reaches our eyes falls in the visible spectrum, our brain “perceives it as a certain color”

So it means that color not an inherent quality of an object. But does that mean an object in reality is colorless? What does a colorless object look like? Would it all be pitch black? Isnt black a color? Or is it lack of color? If a certain object that reflects/emits light outside of our visible spectrum how would it look like?

Im so confused, cant define it properly too, so please help clarify! :)

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