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originally posted in:The Ashen Conflux
12/3/2015 4:55:38 PM
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No I don't actually, I was supposed to be sleeping since I had somewhere I had to be 9:00 AM, but the idea just came to me, and I started typing it, and then it's almost 4:00 AM. Luckily I didn't feel tired at all when I woke up :p
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Question: What is a shape?
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It is a something that is somehow both physical and an idea, or an idea that you can interact with and manipulate as if it was a physical object. An example is "death," which the Hive can physically remove from themselves and move around. They likely exist on some other dimension (like the place beyond the veil), and I'm not sure our senses or our minds are even capable of really perceiving them.
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What is perception? What is reality?
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Edited by Astral Centipede: 12/3/2015 5:51:29 PMPerception is like a model of reality our minds try to make for us using info gathered by our senses. Our senses can only detect a tny portion of what actually exist (for example, we only see a tiny sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum as visible light), so our perceptions are always incomplete and often unrealiable. Reality is simply what is, but we can never directly experience it because our experience of reality (or what we think is reality) is indirect because we have to go through our senses. For all we know, we could all just be brains in a coma dreams that have no resemblance to what is actually real.
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Is perception reality? Is reality our perception?
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From our perspective, our perception is reality, and reality is our perception. Perception is all we have, so we don't know anything else to call reality. No other options for us. Even with the use of precise scientific instruments, we still have to interpret the data it presents through our senses, and so it's still only perception.
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Maybe we need to free ourselves from "science" and "data" in order to break free drom our realities and perceptions of realities.
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You can't directly experience reality, even without science or data. Take vision for example: light bounces off objects, your eyes pick up the light, specific cells in your eyes respond to brightness and wavelength of the lights, which then sends electrical signals to your brain which you experience as the image of the object. You can never actually experience the object itself, or any aspect of the reality that exists beyond the perception (assuming that there is a reality beyond that perception). You can escape your perception by shutting down all your senses, but I don't see what that would accomplish, and it would be a living hell.
