you're right, I'm just arguing that when we talk about colors we talk about the subjective perception of it, the thing that we see, which is what is usually referred to as color in any normal conversation. I didn't know there was a different definition of color which was a synonym of wavelength, in that case you're right. So as you say, the debate is arbitrary because it's about different definitions of color.
However, both measurements of wavelengths, the qualia or subjective one and the numerical wavelength or objective one, both exist only in our minds. There exists a measurement if and only if there exists someone that measures, even if it is an objective measure
interesting, so you're saying wavelengths are also a construct of the human mind (handed with a device to measure them). Maybe then the Buddha was right when he said "form is emptiness"? Which would mean there's no way that something really is independent of the way of looking at it, that things are empty, there are only ways of looking...
But wavelengths are a property of the waves that exist in the wild, while color is a property of our brains interpreting those wavelengths. There's a fundamental difference there: one could say that wavelengths exist independently of the existence of conscious beings (even if no one measures them), while colors only exist if a conscious being can capture photons and has a certain brain system that can interpret those photon's wavelengths.
No, color is a subjective experience a conscious being has. Different colors each correspond to different mixtures of wavelengths, but that doesn't mean they are the same thing. Color is the thing that you see with your consciousness. The difference is fundamental: wavelengths exist independently of the existence of conscious beings, while colors only exist if a conscious being can capture photons and has a certain brain system that can interpret those photon's wavelengths.
I think you're misinterpreting color and wavelength. No color exists "in the wild". Colors only exist in the consciousness of beings that can capture photons. Wavelengths do exist in the wild I guess, or at least it's a human description of how electromagnetic waves move in the wild.
However, both measurements of wavelengths, the qualia or subjective one and the numerical wavelength or objective one, both exist only in our minds. There exists a measurement if and only if there exists someone that measures, even if it is an objective measure