On 20 Nov 02, at 8:16, Mark A. Freeze wrote:
Actually, color is *not* determined by wavelength.
There seems to be some indication that our perception of color is partly learned from those around us.
If color is not determined by wavelength, then how is it determined? I can't buy into the 'learned from others' routine. To me, that says that a person does not see color unless they are told to see color.
No! People perceive color (there are actually two little- known brain centers involved), but what we see as "red" (for example) is learned from what we are told is red. Read the essay ("The Case of the Color Blind Painter") in the book I mentioned by Oliver Sacks, or check into the neurology of color processing in the brain. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com