PureX
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Thanks!I believe it not only exists but defines our species (homo omnisciencis).
Almost all of reality is a blind spot to each individual but we each see what we believe to the virtual exclusion of everything else. The only time to be sure you are seeing reality is when seeing an anomaly. And even here it might be misperception, misunderstanding, or some sort of optical illusion and we're still seeing what we believe.
Reality is infinitely complex and our species can't see any of it so we project our beliefs and color in the world in these terms. Other forms of consciousness on this planet are virtually blind because they see only what they know. An eagle knows what a mouse looks like and what it's good for from a great altitude. It can't really see it at all but it knows how it moves and where it's going. If we had to eat mice we could probably see it from so far away also.
We each live in our own little world where everything makes perfect sense. We don't notice nobody speaks our language because we parse their words to reflect what we believe and don't listen carefully. It never occurs to us that we can't all be right because at their heart so many beliefs are polar opposites of those of other people. Those individuals who believe in the infallibility of Peers and Evidence share many beliefs additionally to these because they model the prevailing paradigms. And never notice they even have models or believe paradigms. They don't notice that each individual has his own unique models because communication is so poor they can't identify the differences. You can these see these differences in how they apply and misapply mathematics and in their variable predictions.
Great thread! Everyone should take it to heart.
Many, many, moons ago, when I was still a youngin' going to art school, I made a sculpture called, "The Big Foot Photo Booth". The idea behind it was that we humans are all basically just hairless apes with hyperactive imaginations; imaging that we are not just hairless apes with hyperactive imaginations, but that we are "humans"; a whole species of "me's". (At the time I was pondering why only humans make art. And I still don't know the answer to that question.) Even then I had some inkling that "reality" is either a lot more than think it is, or a lot less.