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Does the color purple really exist?

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Purple may be made up by our brains; It exists only because of how the brain processes color.
The answer lies within the mind-boggling way that our brains perceive and combine different wavelengths on the visible light spectrum.
Our perception of color involves specialized receptors at the back of our eyeballs, called cones.
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