the experience of color cannot be quantified
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Do you mean this in the sense that all perceptual experiences seem somehow unsatisfying when quantified? That is, we can study the sensors, we have some ideas about how the signals from those sensors are post-processed in the brain, we can do experiments to determine what things people can (or do) differentiate or detect, and we can observe that have enough of a shared experience of the experience to be able to discuss and use the concepts in practical situations. However, for all that, somehow we have the feeling that we're not able to describe the "real thing".
This is referred to as "qualia".
> ... individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.
Consensus on meaning of the term seems elusive.
American Heritage has:
https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=qualia
Webster's:
> experiences seem somehow unsatisfying when quantified
experience is subjective. how do you quantify something subjective?
By assigning numeric values to experience — on a scale of one to ten …
Just ask Dorothy.