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Colors are thus an optical illusion, what we see are reflected photons (light) from objects in some particular frequency ranges.
Examples: red (405 to 480 Thz), yellow (510 to 530 Thz), blue (620 to 680 Thz), violet (680 to 790 Thz), wavelength and frequency possess inverse relationship, i.e. the shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency.
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Black is actually not even a color, but the absence of color (no or little reflected light).
Black materials are materials that absorb all wavelengths of visible light. So if it absorbs everything, we don't get anything reflected back to us, then we see an absence of color: dark.
On the other hand, a white wall is all colors but white, as we see "white" because that's the frequency it reflects (reflected light and frequency) to our retina.
Morpheus in "The Matrix" said:
What is real? How do you define what is real? If you're talking about what can be smelled, tasted and seen, then real is simply an electrical signal interpreted by your brain.
Furthermore, quantum physics has proved that when we observe something, we break the wave function, the observer effect can even make an atom change its state. How can we trust 100% in what we observe?
When a person is hypnotized, the hypnotist manipulates how the individual's perception works. If you are told that you are a chicken, you start waving your arms and pecking at the ground, your perception of reality has been reprogrammed. What you understand as real is not reality, but your manipulated individual reality instead.
We are not always aware of our surroundings:
We are often in “off” mode.
Most of the time we are in the unconscious (automated) mode, for example, when walking and already know the route, or when driving the car from work to home: driving without taking any idea of the route, which is already known, then you go into automatic mode.
Only if some strange obstacle or a different situation arises in front of you, then you become aware and react.
Have you noticed that sometimes you spend tens of minutes daydreaming?
A study by a group of psychophysicists at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland
concluded that awareness is not always continuous, we have long periods of unconsciousness interspersed with brief moments of awareness.
The lead author of the study is Michael Herzog, which was published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
According to him; "A person goes from unconsciousness to consciousness upon waking up in the morning or from anesthesia. Most philosophers agree with the idea of continuous awareness because it follows basic human intuition."
Psychophysicists Leila Drissi-Daoudi and Adrien Doerig argue that the human mind is made up of two stages:
"Conscious awareness is preceded by a long period of unconscious processing, this is because the human being needs to process information continuously, but not you can perceive them without stopping”.
"Thoughts and surroundings are unconsciously updated; if something doesn't make sense, you change your route."
“Conscious processing is overrated. We should give weight to the processing period that takes place in the shadows. We would have that extra dimension of time to solve problems if people took it seriously.”
Source, Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/20090311421 4.htm
