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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4377)	2/2/2001 7:56:10 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

People all seem to perceive the world differently- because we all have different wiring for our senses. On top of that people seem to process the data from their senses differently. On top of THAT people use words (an abstraction) to communicate their highly subjective experience and processing of the extrinsic world. What comes out, in words, is highly processed and is a symbolic representation of what we think is going on in our heads- even our own words are a mere symbolic representation of our thoughts- which are in symbolic form to begin with as me manipulate them in our consciousness. So- I suspect that none of us perceive reality the same way, it is subjective. We can never be sure we are really communicating because a great deal is lost in the abstraction from thought to words, and our perception could have been faulty to begin with. People think what they feel, but they also feel what they think- and a mind can be trained to think more clearly and in certain steps, which appears to lead to more orderly behavior. Even though everything is subjective, and reality (imo) cannot be known- one can still impose formal order by logic, upon the given inputs that we, as humans, receive every minute. Of course in the end I can only say that I do this because it is pleasant to me. I cannot say it is right, or wrong, or better than any other way (objectively). But it is certainly better for me.