Wednesday, January 2, 2008

One man's blank is another man's blunk

I sometimes wonder if I see
feel
smell
hear
taste
everything the same as everyone else. Is every experience unique to me? Do we all experience everything different or exactly the same. Our frame of reference is always the same, limited to that of our own - so how can we ever know? Like the old adage, if a tree falls in the woods and no-one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If we were all there to hear it, would we hear the same sound? If I could "plug in" to your brain for a moment, would I see a red sky or would black be white? Would every song be an octave higher? Would water taste like wine?

Everything is relative, there are no absolutes.
There are no certainties, only probabilities.
Truths are fictions that serve the purpose of common beliefs.
There is no true free will, there are invisible boundaries (aka attractors).

It's a distortion. Henry, Look at me! Look! You can't see me or anyone as they are! I wanted Dostoyevsky!

1 comment:

cdp said...

I wonder this sort of thing a lot.

And I'm pretty damn sure there are no absolutes. Ever.