Is seeing believing, or believing seeing?
There’s the saying, “Don’t believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.”
Do you think that you see what’s really going on around you, or do you only see what you believe? Is your reality all in your head?
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no one believes only half of what they see or everyone would get in an vehicle accident almost immediately.
Seeing as the truth is subjective and seemingly beyond the human capacity for reasoning, it would appear to be the latter.
Terry Pratchett does a fab job of playing with this concept in his Discworld books.
For the sake of convenience and gross generalisations, truth is what the world decides it is.
The philosophical part of this question is done to death rather often on Fluther – the archives bulge. The direct, empirical answer is, we are mostly hallucinating, due to the way our brain processes signals from the retina. Lots of funny magic takes place in the occipital lobe, and then again in the frontal lobe having to do with edge orientation, spatial location, pattern recognition, etc. etc. and “optical illusions” demonstrate that our brain is always constructing artifacts from the signals that are not “really” there.
Well reality is only in your head, because what you experinece is only first hand to you. Reality is a simple series of electronic impulses sending messages to your brain, which in part interprets what it is experiencing. So without your head there is no reality.
I say, you trust no one. Until proven otherwise.
Not to say you can’t be cordial and respectful to others you will meet.
But it is all lip service until proven otherwise. Or that individual gives you, again in time, the impression that they are making sense.
“I know where you are comming from.”
I will still do my research no matter what, I hate relying on information that is biased on because he/she said so.
Of course, unless we are both in agreement right from the beginning.
Take corporeal matter down do the sub atomic level and there is nothing to believe.
I have never taken corporeal matter down, but I love to do The Sub Atomic Level. Also The Mashed Potatoes and The Twist.
I believe noone can get through this entire video.
@pdworkin: The band is “Six-Flavored Leptons,” formerly “The Mesons” and in the future to be “The Fermions.”
I used to like the LHCs, but their front man, Higgs Boson, is nowhere to be found
Schrõedinger’s cat probably ate HB, or not.
It depends on when one was looking. And the damned cat kept moving so it all got complicated.
Random but related video.
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