Who are we?

[Clarke]

Originally Posted by Mika

Simply put I don't give a damn if your scientiic or spiritualist .. what I demand of myself or others is the principle of Tolerence .. we all 'see' through our own single lens .. what we are encouraged to do is recognize that FILTER .. and that we are not God's unto ourselves, but a whole and composite of each other.

Why do people keep using these vision metaphors? The whole idea of "lenses" and "perspectives" implies 1) there's an underlying object that we are looking at through the lens and 2) it is a 3D (read: very complex) object.

I'll expand on that last point slightly: visual perspectives in 3D exist because our eye processes a 2D information. This isn't true for 1D or 2D objects though; we can see all of those, because anything being obscured is physically impossible. Our eye can process the entire object simultaneously.

In the case of philosophy, logic isn't a lens on reality. It's the glass the lens is built from. Or, equally, it is a 3D perspective, built by taking all the infinite 2D ones, layering them on top of each other, and taking out the bits that shine through.

To keep going with the vision metaphors, logic itself is not a 3D object that can be seen from various perspectives; it is 1D. There is nothing hidden behind anything else, there are no shadows to confuse the viewer; it is as clear as a single line drawn on a blank sheet of paper.

There is no single truth as what is true today, will not be tomorrow, or vice versa, rather truth as we understand it, just llike the universe is ever expanding.

It is, will be, and has been true forever throughout all conceivable times and spaces, that the 11th integer cannot be evenly divided into any amount of smaller integers. No information will ever change that, nor is there any opinion to sway. It is more than fact; it is immutable, eternal truth.