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OmegaKV wrote

I would say the most obvious example is colors. Colors as we (or at least I) experience them have no basis in reality.

Seeing a color and recognizing it is no different from the recognition of a texture or light/shadow. In fact, empirically, upon examination on smaller scales, color IS a combination of texture and the light that illuminates that texture. Color is just one of the perceptual properties.

OmegaKV wrote

The reality is that colors are just different wavelengths of light.

That is a human made construct. The original reality is the perceived color itself; it is there immediately, even for a newborn, without having to learn about wavelengths.

OmegaKV wrote

But the experience of perceiving colors is something magical.

It isn't magical to me. I can see the world as something infinitely interesting, but magical it isn't.