Our senses are there to help us understand the reality we live in, and get grounded in the reality we live in. They are the devices that connect our psychological dimension with the physical dimension. Without senses, we wouldn't see, hear, smell, taste or touch anything, and we would all literally be dead because because we wouldn't be able to act or interact within reality to survive. We would just be in total darkness, unable to even recognize there is a reality.
Some people want to try to deny the senses as valid inputs from reality. As if any other fantasy idea they invent in their imagination can compete with reality, since there is "no objective reality" given their claim that they can't trust their senses.
Taking in something with the 5 senses induces aspects of reality into our consciousness. If you can't trust your 5 senses then you can't trust anything. The 5 senses must be trusted and used more exhaustively to provide more data points of input from reality. This permits more points of reference to reality in order to discern reality more accurately. The more data we get, the more they can be linked together to provide greater understanding.
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We should not be so foolish as to think we can abandon our senses simply because we judge them to be fallible at times or falsely conclude they are completely "unreliable". Without senses, we wouldn't be able to do or know anything. We need more data points to create more correspondences and abstract knowledge from reality.
The only way to prove something exists 100% for sure without much thinking, is to point at it as ostensive proof. It is right there in our vision for us to plainly see. Showing someone else that something exists allows them to see it for themselves. We have external sight literally seeing something in front of us, and internal sight of seeing something in our mental vision.
True, some things may be optical illusions, but not most things. These optical illusions are created from existing aspects of reality that deceive and appear as something else due to a limited perspective which limits our ability to perceive, conceive, understand and navigate reality.
Ex: You point to something red to demonstrate the existence of red.
We can't describe the color red other than in a relative description with other correlated aspects of reality, i.e. it's a primary color that is not blue or yellow/green, and hence it is red. We started with the general category of colors, and deduced down to a specific particular red. Orange can also be deduced from red. Red can also be described in terms no one will understand, as the 620–740 nm frequency range of light. We don't talk about thin in terms of wavelengths though, as that's not how our senses see reality. We see colors.
To understand the aspects of reality that really matter (truth, morality, wisdom of right-action, etc.), you don't need to know anything about quantum physics, or any other branch of knowledge brought about through technological means.
All you need are your senses to understand the reality we live in. Understanding quantum physics isn't absolutely important in terms of creating a better, more just, free, peaceful, abundant world. Moral truth is what is, always has been, and forever will be, the most important thing to understand.
Senses show a specific reality, of a specific frequency of light, sound, etc. that we can perceive. There is a reason we exist and operate in this range. We wouldn't exist if we lived at the quantum level, because that is not existence in reality, that is essentially unreality as we know it.
These senses we have are what we need, what we depend upon to interface with reality. All the technology is a bonus, but also a distraction. How far has man progressed morally with all the technology? We haven't moved much in the moral dimension compared to the technological dimension. Technology in general has no direct corollary to morality in a positive or negative sense, but tends towards the negative when morality and reality is not understood properly. The appeal to technological progress or use can forgo moral considerations.
If we learn foundational principles of truth first, then technology can help us facilitate moral living to greater degrees of actuality. Senses are what we have, they are the given innate tools and they do great. Knowledge of how senses work and our processing of sensory inputs allows people to manipulate others with that knowledge while we are ignorant. Critical thinking and self-knowledge is important.
Probe deeper and you will find more knowledge and uncover more what the senses can't see directly upon a first impression. More data is required to abstract. This is how we get to universal general concepts from the particular individual objects we see in reality. The universals manifest through the particulars. We can see 'red' (particular) itself, but we don't see 'color' (universal) itself. One is a specific, particular, and exists by seeing it, and the other is general, universal, and exists not by simply seeing it.
Senses give us the information of what is around us. They relay information about reality. The interpretation we have is what deceives us. The perception can fool us.
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Microwaves, infrared light, dog whistles, radiation, x-rays, higher and lower frequencies of sound and light exist. We can detect them with technological instruments, but not with our designed human eye or ear because we are designed for specific frequency reception. Other animals are designed with certain devices that can see infrared, ultraviolet or hear frequencies we can't.
Those other aspects of reality are not required for our immediate evolution in consciousness towards morality and living without creating evil. We were given the tools we need to discern reality correctly and navigate it to create true freedom and peace.
Some people get lost in technological conclusions and don't use their own external senses or the powerful internal one of consciousness.
"Everything is energy (quantum), so everything is the same at the fundamental level, there are no morals now! Wo0ho0!"
Wake up. Technology can help to facilitate learning by providing mechanisms for doing so (computers, internet) as well as mechanisms that can reduce the labor required to sustain basic survival, which would allow for the pursuits of truth and maintaining morality. First, start with the senses, then improve upon them with tech as needed.
Always remember the basic detectors we are born with: our senses. Some people let technological data override objective reality (a la quantum woowoo gobbledygook). It is all done through belief.
People read what others say, and believe it. It doesn't have to be true. There are experiments with technology, and then there are interpretations of the data. Anyone can provide any interpretation, tell others this is the way it is, and then people will believe them. People are fooled all the time, not thinking properly for themselves, not digging deep enough into the data and info of objective reality.
They prefer to create unreality in their minds and believe it as truth, because it "sounds good" or "feels-good" to them, it "resonates" as true. People get lost in the land of bullshit interpretations and take them as "facts" of reality. They have not even developed a grounded understanding of reality and simply fall for manipulations, either intentional or mistaken deceptions on the parts of those delivering these messages.
Step away from the fantasy and wonder of the clouds, and get grounded in the firm, solid foundational truth of reality we can come to know with greater attention to ourselves and reality.
People are getting lost in the minutia of technological detail and information overload. They do not have firm grounding in the reality we live in without the use of technology to do the thinking and detecting for them. Evolve consciousness. Wake up. Learn to use the tools you were born with. Stop relying on technology so much.
Get out of the clouds and denial of reality by denying the senses, and get grounded in reality. In the end, if you really believe the nonsense that you can't trust your senses where it all starts, then you can't trust a damn thing. Have fun with that deluded worldview.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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I am impressed with the diversity of your knowledge. I have a feeling I would be like a kid in a candy store were I allowed a day in the library of books you have consumed in your life.
I believe we have a sense that we are trained to ignore as they damage it with food, fluoride and EMF. It is referred to as the third eye (pineal gland). I believe our intuition as well as ability to interact with what we have been trained as unseen energies and truths are tied to it.
Hehe, thanks, some books but not that many ;) A good thinking mind is what did it I guess in conjunction with some books and audio info from other sources ;) The food likely plays a part in keeping the brain less efficient :/
@krnel I always enjoy your post. Let me say two things about this.
One beliefs limit perception.
Two Lots of people have not thought the claim that are senses can be fooled through. If you ask how was it you sensed that a sense was fooled, only a few will get it. If you ask people to please show how the sense was fooled without using your senses : most get it.
Sadly some will refuse the truth.
Really nice post.
Yes, we can be fooled by our senses, but the senses aren't always fooling us. They are the basis for attempting to understand if we are or aren't being fooled.
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"Although, chronologically, man’s consciousness develops in three stages: the stage of sensations, the perceptual, the conceptual — epistemologically, the base of all of man’s knowledge is the perceptual stage.
Sensations, as such, are not retained in man’s memory, nor is man able to experience a pure isolated sensation. As far as can be ascertained, an infant’s sensory experience is an undifferentiated chaos. Discriminated awareness begins on the level of percepts . . .
Percepts, not sensations, are the given, the self-evident. The knowledge of sensations as components of percepts is not direct, it is acquired by man much later: it is a scientific, conceptual discovery . . . .
(It may be supposed that the concept “existent” is implicit even on the level of sensations — if and to the extent that a consciousness is able to discriminate on that level. A sensation is a sensation of something, as distinguished from the nothing of the preceding and succeeding moments. A sensation does not tell man what exists, but only that it exists.)"
Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 5–6
Powerful as always @krnel. Keep showering the common sense which we have been programmed to forget.
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Thanks ;)
Looking at the illustrations, it seems to talk about physics again. Seeing words seems to be psychology or philosophy. I do not understand.
Our definitions of our own senses can alter their apparent 'input' to us and additionally, they can be distorted by toxicity and other issues.. I write most days about the need to end denial and I agree absolutely on that - I just feel it is also necessary to understand that ending denial also includes ending denial of the aspects of reality that are not being deeply understood. If we don't know, for example, the absolute relationship between manifested self (human) and everything else (cosmos) then any thought we have on the subject may appear to be true and yet is actually limiting and contains error.
On the one hand it is necessary to seek the objective in reality and on the other hand it is necessary to understand the power of the subjective and its role in creation/life.