Hair splitting? I hardly think so. That's too close to confirmation bias.

If you look at the hyperphysics page on light you'll find many frequencies of color A and color B mixing to match one color C. Our eyes only measure the energy and call that a color.

low A (the lower frequency) + high B (the higher frequency) equals high A (the lower frequency) + low B (the higher frequency).

If anyone can see both the energy and the interference pattern then they could tell them apart. It seems that most people can't.

But there you have a case where information is destroyed because it is indistinguishable.