Truth (with a capital "T") is the elephant, and humanity the blind touching, sniffing, tasting, listening to this big "T" and of course we all rhapsodize a different tale (or tail?), yet in the end the big "T" is still the big "T" and all our various tales describe a tiny bit of that reality, the elephant.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Constructing Reality
What I find interesting about the human mind is that it "constructs" a "wholeness" from the limited data that the limited sensory apparatus stream to the brain. And most folks look out onto this constructed world (constructed inside the brain) and think it is real as they see it, and it is "out there" -- the illusion complete. When what is really out there is an infinite swirl of subatomic particles mixed and directed by a fabric of forces (strong nuclear, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and gravity), too small and too invisible for our sensors to make sense of except for a limited spectrum of the electromagnetic force, the photons. And of the photons we sense a tiny part of it's spectrum, we call it visible light, perhaps a self-centered description?
"Out there", there is no light and no color, there are only electro-magnetic waves; out there, there is no sound and no music, there are only periodic variations of air pressure; out there, there is no heat and no cold, there are only moving, there is no pain.
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