Applies to many other colors as well. I “understand” why that is but it hurts my brain to think about.

  • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    7 days ago

    Absolutely. There is no single wavelength of light being produced that would look yellow on its own, but yellow is the word we have for when our long and medium cones both get activated, and a display does produce light that does that. Yellow exists in our brains, so I think it’s pretty reasonable to say that either yellow exists somewhere in this process or no colors do.

    • four@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      7 days ago

      Well, there is a wavelength that by itself activates both of these cones such that we interpret it as yellow. But a combination of wavelengths also does that