Thursday, February 4, 2010

This is a Response to Yvonne's Post

The Question that immediately caught my attention was "If a sixth sense exsists are people without it percieving a false world?"

I have two answers for this. The first will entertain the thought that you can in some way discover this sixth sense, for in this case you would be able to prove that there is indeed a poor understanding in the general population of the world. Thus you would have gained the ability to percieve what you think is the real world with the additional bennefit of enjoying it in a new way. But in this statement I would like to point out that I don't think that it would make the world any more correct or incorrect to you or anyone, for it would still be the same place, you could only be able to Percieve it in a new way.

Secondly. What does it matter if the world isn't the same to someone else as it is to you? In some cases, people have red and green backwards in their vision: they see a nice spring day with the simple grey sidewalk and brown tree trunks, but the grass and leaves on tress are vibrant red. Does this make the world more real for them than it does for you? Would you even be able to prove the difference of reality to them? And even if you could prove these things, what difference would this make to your understanding of the world in terms of reality?

The point is, the world is what you make of it, perception is just as much in the eye of the beholder as is beauty.
~Alex

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