MatthewB comments on Consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MatthewB 08 January 2010 03:57:26PM 1 point [-]

There is also the fact that what we describe as "redness" is purely by virtue or our anatomy and the ranges at which our eyes' structure receives the light that is then interpreted by our brain as red or blue.

Red, or Blue are just words that we used to describe a state that exists in the universe. What would happen to these colors if our eyes were made of a type of structure that picked up EM radiation all the way from gamma-rays to long-wavelength radio waves?

What "color" would we think something in the Microwave spectrum was? What about the X-Ray Colored objects?