Hereās a quote from Robert Anton Wilson, the author who has most influenced me, which may better explain what Iām trying to get you to see here:
According to Zen Buddhism, and most forms of Buddhism, and quantum mechanics, any description of the universe which leaves you out is inaccurate, because any description of the universe, and the ā¦
Hereās a quote from Robert Anton Wilson, the author who has most influenced me, which may better explain what Iām trying to get you to see here:
According to Zen Buddhism, and most forms of Buddhism, and quantum mechanics, any description of the universe which leaves you out is inaccurate, because any description of the universe, and the description of the instrument that you use to take your reading of the universe ā if the only instrument you use is your own nervous system, you gotta include your own nervous system in your description of the universe.
So, ergo, any model we make does not describe the universe, it describes what our brains are capable of seeing at this time.
Long before quantum mechanics, the German philosopher Husserl said that all perception is gamble. Every type of bigotry, every type of racism, sexism, prejudice, every dogmatic ideology that allows people to kill other people with a clear conscience, every stupid cult, every superstition-ridden religion, every kind of ignorance in the world, are all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see, and then we believe our interpretation of it, but we donāt even know weāre making an interpretation most of the time.
We think this is reality. But in philosophy, thatās called naive realism: āWhat I perceive is reality.ā And philosophers have refuted naive realism every century for the last 2,500 years, starting with Buddha and Plato, and yet most people still act on the basis of naive realism.
Now the argument is, āWell, maybe my perceptions are inaccurate, but somewhere there is accuracy, scientists have it with their instruments. Thatās how we can find out whatās really real.ā But relativity, quantum mechanics, have demonstrated clearly that what you find out with instruments is true relative only to the instrument youāre using, and where that instrument is located in space-time. So there is no vantage point from which real reality can be seen.
Weāre all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that weāre all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from.
All the ones who donāt have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world if weāre willing to listen.
Hereās a quote from Robert Anton Wilson, the author who has most influenced me, which may better explain what Iām trying to get you to see here:
According to Zen Buddhism, and most forms of Buddhism, and quantum mechanics, any description of the universe which leaves you out is inaccurate, because any description of the universe, and the description of the instrument that you use to take your reading of the universe ā if the only instrument you use is your own nervous system, you gotta include your own nervous system in your description of the universe.
So, ergo, any model we make does not describe the universe, it describes what our brains are capable of seeing at this time.
Long before quantum mechanics, the German philosopher Husserl said that all perception is gamble. Every type of bigotry, every type of racism, sexism, prejudice, every dogmatic ideology that allows people to kill other people with a clear conscience, every stupid cult, every superstition-ridden religion, every kind of ignorance in the world, are all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see, and then we believe our interpretation of it, but we donāt even know weāre making an interpretation most of the time.
We think this is reality. But in philosophy, thatās called naive realism: āWhat I perceive is reality.ā And philosophers have refuted naive realism every century for the last 2,500 years, starting with Buddha and Plato, and yet most people still act on the basis of naive realism.
Now the argument is, āWell, maybe my perceptions are inaccurate, but somewhere there is accuracy, scientists have it with their instruments. Thatās how we can find out whatās really real.ā But relativity, quantum mechanics, have demonstrated clearly that what you find out with instruments is true relative only to the instrument youāre using, and where that instrument is located in space-time. So there is no vantage point from which real reality can be seen.
Weāre all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that weāre all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from.
All the ones who donāt have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world if weāre willing to listen.