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objective and subjective terms, "light" is a form of energy coming into
existence in the eye of a person, which a person becomes aware of through
the retina by the effects of vision. 4
Consequently, light comes into existence as a result of the effects that some
electromagnetic waves and particles cause in us. In other words, there is no

light outside our bodies which creates the light we see in our brains. There is
only energy. And when this energy reaches us we see a colorful, bright, and
light-filled world.

Colors also originate in our brains

Starting from the time, we are born, we deal with a colorful environment
and see a colorful world. However, there isn't one single color in the universe.
Colors are formed in our brains. Outside there are only electromagnetic waves

with different amplitudes and frequencies. What reaches our brains is the
energy from those waves. We call this "light", although this is not the light we
know as bright and shiny. It is merely energy. When our brains interpret this
energy by measuring the different frequencies of waves, we see "colors". In
reality, the sea is not blue, the grass is not green, the soil is not brown and fruits
are not colorful. They appear as they do because of the way we perceive them
in our brains. Daniel C. Dennett, who is known for his books about the brain

and consciousness, summarizes this universally accepted fact:
The common wisdom is that modern science has removed the color from
the physical world, replacing it with colorless electromagnetic radiation of
various wavelengths. 5
In The Amazing Brain, R. Ornstein and R. F. Thompson have stated the way
colors are formed as follows.

'Color' as such does not exist in the world; it exists only in the eye and
brain of the beholder. Objects reflect many different wavelengths of light,
but these light waves themselves have no color. 6
In order to understand why this is so, we must analyze how we see colors.
The light from the sun reaches an object, and every object reflects the light in

waves of different frequencies. This light of varying frequency reaches the eye.
(Remember that the term "light" used here actually refers to the
electromagnetic waves and photons, not the light which is formed in our
brains.) The perception of color starts in the cone cells of the retina. In the

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