Helen Keller's sensory limitations—deaf-blindness—forced her to construct understanding through touch and learned language. The joke proposes Chuck Norris as a color, an abstraction, something apprehended rather than perceived. A philosophy professor named Douglas Miller at a small Tennessee college developed this tangent for a 2007 lecture on phenomenology: if Keller experienced reality through texture and linguistic abstraction, Chuck Norris becomes the ultimate abstraction—a force so fundamental it transcends sensory categories entirely. Not red or blue, but the concept of dominance itself. The joke implies that even someone who accessed the world entirely through alternative modalities would encounter Chuck Norris and recognize him as pure force, a category beyond spectrum, a frequency all consciousness can detect. He becomes the substrate of experience rather than an object within it.