--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (Thanks for sticking with this-- Its a lot of fun...) > > "If you mean that you are creating your own perspective or > > impression of a person inside your own mind then I understand." > > Great-- so from your perspective, that is all you know. Even if I > > were to tell you everything I believed about myself, you would still > > create me for yourself; as you perceive me. We may think that there > > is a difference between the other person we perceive, and who that > > person *really* is, but there isn't. How could there be? > > > We could be wrong about the person. We could misperceive. A phrase > "like who that person really is" may not have one answer for a system > as complex as a human. There could be a lot of descriptions that > could equally fit but be quite different.
Exactly, each created by a different perceiver. There is no "real person", or alternatively, there are an infinite number of components to the "real person". So many as to render a definitive "real person" meaningless. > I can't get out of my own perceptual position with its inherent limits > to know about you. I use those limits to make sense of the world as > best as I can. I'm still not getting your overall point. > Just that the idea that we only perceive part of the world around us is a fallacy. What we create through our perception is exactly what the universe consists of, that we create. Our universe. With all of its limitations. Its really quite a simple notion, with all kinds of fascinating derivatives. It is comforting to think that we are no longer living in our childhood home, it continues to exist, for example. But unless we take someone's word for it, or actually see it, for all practical purposes, it doesn't. It absolutely vanishes from our universe, no longer part of our creation. Like anything else we don't perceive directly. I am not positing some sci fi reality where stuff pops in and out of existence depending on whether we are perceiving it directly or not, though given the evidence in front of us, and limited by our senses, that is a perfectly reasonable conclusion.
