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Like light, colors are an interpretation by the
brain. The brightness in the image and the
world of color are formed solely by types of ra-
diation we perceive in this manner.* The interp-

retation is entirely subjective.
Richard L. Gregory, Emeritus Professor of
Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol,
sums up the position in his book, Eye and Brain:

Strictly speaking, light itself is not coloured: it

gives rise to sensations of brightness and colo-
ur, but only in conjuction with a suitable eye
and nervous system. 38

Any damage or structural alteration that occurs in the eye may cause the same object to be percei-
ved in very different ways, even though the signals generated by the arriving photons and the visual

center in the brain still have exactly the same properties. That is why color-blind people and those with
normal vision perceive and interpret specific colors so very differently.
The conlusion emerging from this whole account is that what we perceive as “the outside world” is
dark. In fact, even the concept of darkness may be misleading. There is no color at all there. The three-
dimensional, bright world we see portrayed in vivid colors is entirely deceptive. The reflected photons

* All light waves consist of electromagnetic radiation. The reason why some are harmful and others not
lies in the different wavelengths—and therefore, energy—they possess.

There is actually no color in the
space we perceive as “the out-
side.” The movements of pho-
tons we perceive as light and
color are nothing more than
perceptual phenomena created
in a pitch-black environment.

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