Page 705 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

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 ac-
cepted fact:

The common wisdom is that modern science has re-
moved the color from the physical world, replac-
ing 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 ana-

lyze 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 per-

ception of color starts in the cone cells of
the retina. In the retina, there are three

There are no colors in the world outside. Colors are
only formed in the eyes and brain of the observer.
Only energy packets of various wavelengths exist in
the external world. It is our brains that transform this
energy into colors.

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