The embodiment of color perception
7 min readNov 15, 2022
Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist claimed that we do not have direct access to the world and its constituents (Patton, 2018). We can only access the events they lead to in our brains. For example, looking at the sky and realising that there is a full moon most notably involves processes of sensing the visual stimulus, perceiving the image so formed on our retina, recalling and recognizing it as a full moon, among others…