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What if what my brain interprets as green yours interprets as hot purple?
I think this is exactly what is called qualia, what you see may be different from what I see, and there's no way to ever tell.
As a kid, I thought colour blindness/deficiency worked like that, until I learned that in this case people have trouble distinguishing colours, not naming them
Salads would be weird
if your whole life salads looked like that they wouldn't be weird at all.
I get that it's a joke, but bottom line? The names of colors are just the way our brains interpret specific wavelengths, and wavelength is objective. So it doesn't really matter, because the wavelength of the photon is the same regardless of how our brain perceives it
Wavelength may be objective, but the signal that a brain receives may be different if the cells which are supposed to receive that objective wavelength aren't functioning correctly.
Like if I make you wear rose coloured glasses, it doesn't matter what colours I show you, you won't be able to name them correctly because the objective stimulus is literally coloured before it makes it to your brain.
Except the rose-colored glasses example doesn't really disagree, because the colored glass is absorbing all the photons except the pink ones, so you're really just further making my point.
But that's correlation, the way the brain conceptualizes it into a "color" in the mental model, well that's the qualia stuff referenced in another comment.