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The perception paradox

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 Imagine, you are laying in a green plush field full of dew ridden grass. With your eyes gazing the beautiful twilight. With no noise but the sound of birds chirping and the natural sound of beetles in the distance with a faint smell of fresh lilies in the air around you . Quite a sight to behold and the apt place to calm your nerves. But what if I tell you, the pale tinge of blue and purple you perceive is not what another person sees and he sees grey instead. What if the faint smell of flowing lilies smells different as they perceive it differently. How does one come to such an absurd conclusion. Well ,you'll be the judge of it in the end. The first question is, is color the property of an object or, is it a property of your brain the perceives a specific frequency to the corresponding color. We all know that light is nothing but Electro magnetic waves, thus each object being unique has its own characteristic frequency. Now, is it because that the object itself is of that color t...