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Perception, do you see something?
Since a few weeks I have been finding a
solution to the riddle
of perception. What do we see? Is there
sometihng to be seen?
The surety of scinece about seeing things is
sometimes
to much for me. We are taken by surprise by
scientist
every times we are confronted with pictures
from
somewhere in outer space: star clouds,
galaxies.
Even science has nothing more to say then that
light
used for the picture has been travelling
billions of years.
May be the object on the picture does not exist
anymore
since the same billions of years.
What is knowledge?
I have tried to make a table of possibilities
in perception:
|
1 |
There is something to be seen |
The eyes have seen something |
The brain has noticed the object |
|
2 |
There is something to be seen |
The eyes have seen something |
The brain has not noticed the object |
|
3 |
There is something to be seen |
The eyes have not seen something |
The brain has noticed the object |
|
4 |
There is something to be seen |
The eyes have not seen something |
The brain has not noticed the object |
|
5 |
There is not something to be seen |
The eyes have seen something |
The brain has noticed the object |
|
6 |
There is not something to be seen |
The eyes have seen something |
The brain has not noticed the object |
|
7 |
There is not something to be seen |
The eyes have not seen something |
The brain has noticed the object |
|
8 |
There is not something to be seen |
The eyes have not seen something |
The brain has not noticed the object |
Some of the possible combinations seem to be
neglectable,
but for reasons not to oversee any possibility
we keep all eight combinations for discussion.
Possibility 1.
This seems to be the normal situation.
It is the optimistic view on the world,
which is more or less the view of the empirical
sciences
and seems to be the Western way of perception.
Possibility 2.
Although many will not believe this possibility
to be normal,
I have the feeling that not having
"seen"
that was there to be seen is quite normal.
Possibility 3.
Here I am as a psychic person.
Somehow there was something.
I did not see it, but the impression of
something is in my brain.
Possibility 4.
This is of course a very probable possibility.
Certainly when something is out of the
ordinary,
we have learned to skip it.
Many details in life are overseen that way.
The beauty of the people surrounding us.
The love near us.
Possibility 5.
Here we are in the field of mistakes.
Or maybe in telepathic messaging.
Or in the fruitful imagination of artists.
Possibility 6.
Is this a likely possibility?
Anyway it seems to be not very useful.
Possibility 7.
Telepathy.
Distant messaging.
Dreaming.
Other dimensions.
Possibility 8.
Ok, this possibility is the negation of
everything.
So nothing there, I presume.
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2007
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