I posted this image in another thread:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39504726/seethings.jpg)
Assuming it's part of your perspective, how do you figure that statement is true?
This is so true.
And to prove it, I've told myself a while ago that, if I see a specific colour, let's say blue, if I perceive that colour as blue, it doesn't mean that it is. For someone else this blue might be perceived as Orange for me but we both call the colour blue.
He might see Orange as blue but he calls it orange because that's what everyone taught him.
I can see Blue as his Orange but I call it blue because that's how I learned it lol.
This is so confusing but it's so true hahaha.
Same goes for pretty much every images we perceive, or every philosophy. It's all about that perception.
Good way of thinking outside the box.
Probably quite nearly true. Our perspective is probably accounts for 80% of what we experience. The remaining 20% is what the data of the world systems we are interfacing with is providing us with.
When most humans see the same table, they almost universally experience the same concept- a piece of furniture. Maybe a few Irishmen see a dancing stage, and a few Daoists and Buddhists see a bed, or a puppet theatre frame that has been turned on its side, or 20 broomsticks that have yet to be cut and lathed, but we all seem to see the same piece of wood in about the same shape.
When the spider sees the table, she sees a curiously flat plane of oceanic dimensions, but in roughly the same shape as the humans see it, if given enough time to work that out (spiders have incredibly great memory for spatial data).
Excuse me here though, because I merely arguing against a universal by identifying where the exceptions are. Our experiences of the table, despite being united by the same source material, are far more different than they are the same.
For one person, the table is a static object of no consequence. For another person, it is an item of high utility. For a third, it represents a certain number of hours of labor to purchase or to craft. For a fourth, it is a part of a living, singing world that writhes with life. For the spider, it is a home and a hunting ground, and has beautiful nooks underneath for a nest. For the beings tending the simulations, it is 500,000 disparate sense experiences had by thousands of beings, which tell the story of one small part of the world, from thousands of angles.
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Or put in another, simpler way... if you go on vacation to a new city... are the people there also on vacation? If you understand why not, then you get it.