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RE: #PersonalFave: "Do We See Reality As It Is?" The Most Mind-Blowing TED Talk I've Seen
Wow, that is indeed an amazing talk. Definitely worth the time.
I especially liked the computer interface metaphor:
Fortunately we a have a very helpful metaphor: the desktop interface of your computer. Consider that blue icon. Now, the icon is blue and rectangular, and in the lower right corner of the desktop. Does thet mean that the text file itself in the computer is blue, rectangular, and in in the lower right-hand corner of the computer?
Yeah me too! Such a simple argument, but so powerful.
This metaphor can also shed some light on the way how we perceive "mental disorders".
The current approach: Your illness causes you to make up a reality which does not exist. Those voices that you hear and images that you see are not real, they are only illusions in your head.
A new approach: Your interface chooses to display and interpret reality in a non-standard way. And it's non-standard only here, on this planet, and only among a species called homo sapiens. It might be the case that your interface renders reality more accurately than the rest of your species .
Isn't it interesting that the human mind which is itself along with the 5 senses a set of tools that form an interface to reality created the computer the way it did with tools that form an interface to the data we work with everyday?
Now imagine if we could theme our reality.
I think we can