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  • Purple exists only in our brains...The color is our brain’s solution to a puzzling problem

    02/03/2025 6:36:50 PM PST · by Red Badger · 210 replies
    Science News Explores ^ | January 28, 2025 | Tammy Awtry
    There is something unique about the color purple: Our brain makes it up. So you might just call purple a pigment of our imagination. It’s also a fascinating example of how the brain creates something beautiful when faced with a systems error. To understand where purple comes from, we need to know how our eyes and brain work together to perceive color. And that all begins with light. Light is another term for electromagnetic radiation. Most comes from the sun and travels to Earth in waves. There are many different types of light, which scientists group based on the lengths...