Vision, Perception and Reality
"...eyes wide opened - a learned discipline; it can be taught, it can be practiced..."
- Isaac Lidsky.
Fall is here. That time of the year when leaves change. Chlorophylls deplete while carotenoids and anthocyanins take a center stage - a beautiful orchestra and interplay of biochemistry wonderful to behold. However, what do we see? What do we perceive? And, what is 'it'?
Oftentimes, things we see (or the things we choose to see) cloud our notion, and thus rob us of the 'truth' of what is. Seeing is believing - so said. It may however likewise be said that believing is seeing. The process of believing enlists elements of our thought processes - members of the image forming neural circuitry. A bilateral relationship that isn't without the other and feed off one another. Perhaps an example is the common situation in which the cup is half full or the cup is half empty. One may believe the cup is half full and thus see a cup filled midway to its brim. Another may believe otherwise and sees it the other way around. The question that technically begs to be answered is; who is right? Can both be right yet seem diametrically opposed to one another. Both imply one and the same idea some may say. A notion of an absolute truth would perhaps suggest there is but one answer. But, what is it?
The masterful display of a full fall foliage is almost unquestionably 'beautiful'. But does an inability to see, much less perceive deny this as a matter of fact?
Eccl 3:11, Gen 1: 14
- Isaac Lidsky.
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Oftentimes, things we see (or the things we choose to see) cloud our notion, and thus rob us of the 'truth' of what is. Seeing is believing - so said. It may however likewise be said that believing is seeing. The process of believing enlists elements of our thought processes - members of the image forming neural circuitry. A bilateral relationship that isn't without the other and feed off one another. Perhaps an example is the common situation in which the cup is half full or the cup is half empty. One may believe the cup is half full and thus see a cup filled midway to its brim. Another may believe otherwise and sees it the other way around. The question that technically begs to be answered is; who is right? Can both be right yet seem diametrically opposed to one another. Both imply one and the same idea some may say. A notion of an absolute truth would perhaps suggest there is but one answer. But, what is it?
The masterful display of a full fall foliage is almost unquestionably 'beautiful'. But does an inability to see, much less perceive deny this as a matter of fact?
Eccl 3:11, Gen 1: 14
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