RE: It’s All Relative: Notes on our Perception of Reality
This is interesting in a lot of ways. But first, I want to believe that certain things are absolute but our perception can be influenced to measure it subjectively. e.g, a 10cm pen remains 10cm but if you swing it fast enough, it appears shorter. A day is always 24 hours but this can be perceived as long or as short as possible depending or how much fun or torture it was. (I think it is related to the question, "if a tree falls in the forest, but there was no one to witness it, does it still make a sound?) yes, it does but our conscious perception helps measure /study matter and our perception can be easily influenced by speed/pleasure and other states (this is my opinion).
this is a bit unrelated but, I recall that a long time ago, I ordered 5 books from amazon and waited like 4 months and they weren't delivered (Amazon confirmed shipment when I contacted them and even refunded me in the 3rd month), back then, I found writings by a guy and experimented with "visualization" (I neither doubt or believe it these days). It was around the 4th month when I read the guy and one day, I imagined the post man dropping off the books. Two weeks later, to my surprise, he came through and said they've had the books for like two months or so and were just thinking of reshipping it to amazon), I paid the drop off fees and took the books. My question then was, were they influenced to delay reshipping for two months just so I could experiment with visualization and have them bring the book? or was it just coincidental? some times, I think Quatum physics try to answer these questions but maybe we will never know. (Note: I have since experimented with visualization on a lot of things and this story was the only one that worked. lol)
this is a good point. But is 10cm actually absolutely 10cm or is it relative? That measurement is never truly measured in a vacuum. It is still based on our relative speed of our planet rotating and moving through space.
your visualization story is interesting. I personally do believe that a lot of these visualization scenarios rely on coincidence and confirmation bias. We tend to only take note of the times that something confirms our theory and largely ignore the times that our theories are disproven. But, as you suggested quantum mechanics has implications that often defy the laws of physics and nature - so who knows really? I'm open to anything as a possibility.
Also try see it this way, If you take two 10cm objects to be measured against each other in a vacuum, would they be inconsistent? I want to believe there is an underlying absoluteness in certain measurement even if they will fluctuate under different circumstances.
Yes, that's true, prayers and visualizations fail more than they work, sometimes maybe just 10% success rate. that's confirmation bias.
hmm. yes that is interesting. Maybe there is an absolute nature to external objects.
But like you said previously, there is a subjective nature to our perception of the external. Our sense perceptions are limited, so with that in mind I believe that we can never really experience the absolute nature of something.
yes, it is more understandable and I agree with that. Maybe it's something like consensus reality, something we developed and jointly agreed on to make sense of our perception of reality.
yeah maybe. thats certainly a possibility. All i know for certain is that life is mysterious lol
Lol..well, yes, but science keeps helping us learn and understand things better everyday.
that is true :)