Color is determined by the reflection of light on a surface and is experienced by our sense of sight although some people also have a sense where by they can hear color.

What we see is not as simple.

According to an article in a recent Mensa publication what color we see is much more complex and is not determined with the same degree of determining factors.

What color we see, how we describe it, and how we react to it is caused by “variations in individual and cultures”.

“Genetic variations in the biology of light determines in one’s eyes ” are the main factor in what color an individual physically sees so that all persons don’t see the same result when viewing the same color.

Levels of advancement in the culture in which we exist are the other factor by which we experience color.

“Your own subjective experience of color is so private.”

Just as people have different reactions to the sounds they hear people also have different reactions to the colors they see.

“It’s difficult to know if these differences are biological or cultural.”

The genetic make up with which we are born and the environment in which we are raised and live are the causes of our own individual life experience.

The deeper and more we learn about the universe in “which we live and move and have our being” the more we advance civilization and increase the quality of our life’s experience.

And is not making the most and best of what we experience what life is all about?

How much of what we experience seeing in life is color?

Food for thought.