Jayjay
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No, you are asserting that this is what color is. But it's not a commonly accepted definition; it's your own private one. That alone doesn't make it a bad one though. We can hypothesize various definitions and see where they lead. It's not entirely without philosophical merit to think that outside world doesn't exists, only our brain's interpretations of it, because we can't really perceive anything directly, only via our mental faculties. It would be a solipsist view, but not entirely nonsensical.The machine does not detect a color. It detects a characteristic of the light and is programmed (by humans) to associate that characteristic with a certain color.
I think you are using an non-standard definition of "color". What color is, is characteristics of light. If you define color as a fuzzy feeling in a human brain, it can obviously mean anything. But that's not a useful or a sensible definition precisely because it can be anything. A person who hears the word "sky" may have the same parts of his brain activated that denotes the color blue. But there is nothing in the sound waves or pixels that comprise the word "sky" to make that connection. It's all in the observer's brain. Another observer may associate it with some other color, or no color at all.
I am talking about what color actually is.
Color is what a brain creates when the receptor cells in the eye are stimulated by a certain frequency of light.
What makes your particular view nonsensical is that you are also saying that some properties of matter are real, like shape or weight. You are excluding color from this group for completely arbitrary reasons.
EDITED TO ADD: In other words, you are confusing the label for the thing with the thing itself. An idea of a car in your brain is not the car. The label for the shape of an object is not actual object. The idea of a 1kg weight is not a 1kg weight. And likewise, your label for the color red, is not the same as the actual color red.